Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...animal park, convention hall and housing area for 60,000 that by 1980 will transform a 10,000-acre jungled seaside strip south of Abidjan into "the African Riviera" (TIME, March 15). Mayer says he has invitations from 20 other African nations, including Kenya and Madagascar, to build similar tourist centers or hotels. Architect and City Planner Thomas Leitersdorf has planned new housing and roads for the Riviera project in such a fashion as to provide a gentle transition to urban life for the 7,000 Ebrie tribesmen who now live in overcrowded farming villages nearby...
Scene One: First-class section of a New York-to-Boston airliner. Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. is discovered tapping diligently at a typewriter on his lap. Enter Liberal Writer Arthur Schlesinger Jr. on his way to the tourist section. He spots Buckley and stops to needle him about preparing so frantically for the public debate scheduled to take place between them in Boston that evening. Scene Two: Tourist compartment. Schlesinger receives small package from stewardess. He unwraps it, finds cigar with a note: "Arthur-this is my contribution to your last meal. Bill." Scene Three: Logan Airport, Boston...
Only a couple of years ago, Puerto Ricans could afford a sunny air of self-satisfaction. Businesses lured by tax benefits and tourists attracted year round by the cool sea and warm weather caused the island's economy to flower brightly. Now Puerto Rico is clouded by recession. Once-thriving garment and shoe industries are suffering from foreign competition, agricultural employment has plunged (soaring costs and shrinking markets soured the sugar industry), and the jobless rate has risen to 13%. Migration to the U.S. mainland, which declined during the boom years, is swelling again. The most obvious sign...
Puerto Rican businessmen now look to the island's government to pluck them from the economic slough. Officers of the hotel association want a wage-price freeze in the tourist industry. Others in the tourist business demand that more public money be spent on promotion and advertising, even at the expense of public education. Casino owners are pressing the government to allow slot machines and games like baccarat, which are presently banned. The real answer, of course, lies in a return to the pre-boom formula of courteous treatment and reasonable prices...
...Americans are buying more Volkswagens, Toyotas and Sony TVs. U.S. sales of goods and services to foreigners still exceed purchases, but this trade surplus has been shrinking and can no longer pay for as much of the military and tourist spending and corporate investment abroad as it once did. From $8.5 billion in 1964, the trade surplus plummeted to $1.9 billion in 1969. The surplus rose to $3.6 billion in 1970, but that increase is less encouraging than it looks. Exports rose less and imports held up more than they have in past recession years-an indication that U.S. industry...