Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tourist Trap...
...began when Premier Gaston Eyskens brought up the bill for leaving the Congo. Suddenly, Belgians discovered that the Congo would cost not only humiliation but money-in lost export revenue, tourist income, shipping profits and earnings on Congo raw materials. To make up the loss of empire and to streamline Belgium's overburdened social welfare system, Eyskens proposed an austerity program that would raise taxes by $120 million, cut government spending by $200 million on such things as unemployment benefits and old-age pensions...
Kayira set off again, walking 50 miles a day, sometimes hitchhiking, and eventually boarding a White Nile steamer. "I had no food, but by the mercy of God on the boat was an American tourist." This Samaritan fed Kayira until he reached Khartoum, where he marched proudly into the U.S. embassy for a visa...
Ironically, the one outstanding play of the season has been O'Casey's. In its dignity, freshness, and language, it is the antithesis of stilted and mechanically "avant-garde" off-Broadway. Hopefully its success will indicate that tourist theater cannot totally swallow up decent theater downtown...
...Browne has another project in mind. He wants to set up in Paris the kind of romantically naughty bistro that he thinks every U.S. tourist dreams about finding there-but never does...