Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amsterdam Exchange maintained the appearance of stolid Dutch calm so well that in the midst of a sell-off that sent Philips Lamp plummeting from $205 to $185, a tourist wandered onto the floor under the impression that he was in a museum...
Modern technology has obliterated the frontiers of disease. Thanks to jet planes, a louse brushed from the sleeve of a beggar in an Oriental bazaar may attach itself to a tourist who will land in San Francisco next day-already infected with typhus...
...tranquil, beautiful seaport perched in a natural amphitheater overlooking the East China Sea, Nagasaki (pop. 380,000) prefers to be known as Japan's most cosmopolitan city. Its tourist bureau seldom steers visitors to atomic landmarks, celebrates instead the city's lantern-lit nightclubs and restaurants (specialties: sugared shaddock, peeled loquats), its 17th century Dutch colony and the Nipponese-Gothic mansion, built on a hilltop by a British tycoon in 1850, that Nagasaki fondly identifies as the "original home'' of Puccini's Madama Butterfly...
...holiday, have the sort of meals most people like to have in conditions that make meals a pleasure, three weeks' holiday in America would cost just about double what the ads say." Says Paris' Figaro: "The U.S. risks having a problem this summer in a mob of tourists who believe what they read. Despite claims, there is absolutely no doubt that a tourist who undertakes a tour of four weeks in the direction of the Grand Canyon with $400 in his pocket is going to find himself after two weeks in the middle of the country without...
...gold drain, a major U.S. affliction since 1958, results from the fact that the U.S. spends and lends more abroad than it earns there. In its foreign trade, the U.S. regularly shows a comfortable surplus ($5.6 billion last year). But this is more than outweighed by tourist spending, private investment abroad, foreign aid, military assistance to U.S. allies, and the cost of maintaining U.S. troops overseas-all of which added up to $16.6 billion last year. Things have improved somewhat since 1960, when the nation lost a jarring $1.7 billion worth of gold. But the fact that...