Word: tourister
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...huge and continuing deficit in the U.S. balance of payments, reflecting the fact that the U.S. spends and lends (and gives) more abroad than it takes back home. Though the Kennedy Administration has measurably improved the balance of payments by various methods (including encouraging exports and limiting tourist purchases abroad), the situation is still serious. This year's balance-of-payments deficit is expected to reach at least $1.5 billion, a billion less than last year's but a good $500 million more than the Administration had hoped...
Though the signs outside identified it as a hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...heaven and 'ell, and they're both bloody." The fabled food and demented dialogue were never the same after Rosa finally made it through the gates at the age of 85, going on 90. But little else changed. Not long ago, Successor Jeffrey coldly advised an American tourist to try "a nice little place round the corner called the Ritz." When he had left, she confided: "He is a Mr. Tennessee Williams, and I understand he has written a rather nasty play...
Blunden made a null trip through the west and southwest of Spain, touching not only the tourist spots, but such forsaken and hostile places as the valley of Las Hurdes. He found that "people were speaking more freely and more openly than at any time since the Civil War. It is as if a statutory limit on the sense of guilt arising out of the Civil War-shared by both sides-had suddenly...
...Maritime Administration, is the U.S.'s first high speed hydrofoil ferryboat. But in Italy, hydrofoil ferries are old hat. Neapolitans scarcely spare a glance any more for the sleek, 140-passenger aliscafi (winged hulls) that skim out across the Bay of Naples four times a day on the tourist run to Capri 18 miles away...