Word: tourister
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Regarding the curtailing of military dependents overseas: stop travel of American tourists overseas. The average tourist spends more on the foreign economy during a two-to four-week period overseas than the average service family spends in a year...
...missed the biggest story out there in Hong Kong. True, Cheong Sam skirts and shopping infuse the tourist with excitement, but what about the building of the housing estate blocks that are taking 1,000,000 refugees out of hillside squatter shacks and changing the whole face of the British colony? Any tourist who has experienced the giving away of 1,000 bags of noodles to hungry, screaming Chinese children will jet away with the most intoxicating memory for life...
Punch hurried valiantly into the breach with a supposititious Tourist Council brochure, which assures impoverished Americans that they are still welcome in Britain, where "our hospitality can be tailored to your diminished purse." Some helpful items...
...paintings, only 74-including the Venus-can be seen by the public, they hang on the third floor of a building in Vaduz, above the National Tourist Office and the Postage Stamp Museum. And aside from occasionally selling a painting, the prince, whose interests are mostly confined to his investments, pays little heed to his dusty hidden treasure...
...American Friends of the Middle East, Inc. agreed to pay half the cost of a round trip tourist flight ticket from Teheran to New York so that an outstanding Iranian economist, Mr. Khoddad Farmanfarmaian, could attend 20th Century Week. They have paid the cost of transportation of a Persian, not an Arab. This is their sole contribution to the Program. They had no influence whatsoever on the selection of invited guests. Moreover, there is no "panel on the Near East" during 20th Century Week. Professor Jones, therefore, has no factual basis for drawing the conclusion that he did. Roger...