Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unhallowed Significance. Between the garden and the town, the tourist passes the ruins of the castle of Illiers, built in 1019 by Geoffroy D'llliers Vicomte de Châteaudun. British Biographer George D. Painter points out that one of the wrecked towers "had an unhallowed significance for Marcel: It could be seen from the lavatory where he would retire whenever he needed privacy to read, weep, or make his first experiments in the pleasures of sex-experiments which were not without their heroic side, since he was not sure at first that their rending delight would...
...shuts on the stroke of 9, leaving Prince Street (on Saturday nights) to the beery wassailing of the Daughters of Bilitis, a militant lesbian organization quartered in a loft near by. There are no boutiques, no sleazy head shops hustling Moroccan love beads made in Jersey City to tourists from Duluth, no taxis, no clubs. For the casual visitor, the most baffling thing about the loft district is that it does not have a "scene" at all; nothing apparently exists behind its nobly looming iron facades except art and cotton waste. But what disappoints the tourist delights the resident artist...
AMERICA'S annual tourist pilgrimage to Europe swings into high gear this week, and it will be bigger than ever-by far. One reason: a brush-fire price war has broken out among the airlines. They have cut the price of flights for "youngsters" aged twelve to 26 -and for "students" as old as 29-by more than 50% below the normal summertime economy fare. Under some circumstances it will now cost only $16 more to fly from the West Coast to Europe than to New York City. The price war is also bringing fares down to the level...
...Common Market banks, instead of collecting interest on those deposits. The Commission also suggests a double standard for exchange rates, such as Belgium recently adopted, and West Germany is now considering for its superstrong mark. There would be one rate for "current" transactions (mostly export-import deals and tourist spending); another rate, presumably less favorable to foreigners, would cover loans, investments and other transactions. This would be financial isolationism with a vengeance, and the double-exchange-rate system sounds like an administrative monstrosity...
...back toward notions of "defending the dollar" at all costs. The Government has shifted its attention from reforming the monetary system to attacking trade problems. Connally argues that foreign discrimination against U.S. exports prevents the U.S. from selling enough to the rest of the world to cover its military, tourist and investment expenditures overseas. It is this discrimination, he says, that perpetuates the nation's balance of payment deficits...