Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dorticós, the indefatigable tourist, was unmoved. Everywhere he went he got in a little anti-U.S. propaganda. This led to Washington's angriest note so far to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Citing Dorticós' public declaration in Montevideo that property of U.S. citizens had not been confiscated but was fairly paid for, the Department of State said: "To our knowledge not a single American property owner has been reimbursed." Washington listed eight other instances of Cuba's "intense official campaign of slander" against the U.S., among them Economic Czar "Che" Guevara...
...Louis - whose debts include $1-250,000 in back income taxes-has carried his admiration further and become a paid pressagent for Cuba. With Cuba's $60 million-a-year tourist business off 85% and Havana's luxury hotels deserted, Castro signed a $287,000-a-year contract with a Manhattan all-Negro public relations firm (Joe Louis, vice president) to promote Cuba as a vacation spot for U.S. Negroes. The firm gets a fee of $25,000 a year, plus a 15% commission on advertising, so far has plans to spend $262,000 on contests and convention...
...travels about Europe, figures Soprano Leontyne Price, she must have walked several dozen times through Milan's Piazza della Scala, past the ornate brown-brick theater with the triple-arched main entrance. She never went in. "I swore," says she, "that I would not enter even as a tourist until I sang there." Last week she entered, singing: at 33 she was making her La Scala debut in Aïda, and the demanding audience recognized almost at once that she would...
...business around her pretty little figure, but after two years of tryouts is still suckering sailors in a dime-a-dance hall-she stands for Experience. And the villain of the piece is the great big city, a sort of cold-water Sodom populated by pimps, prostitutes, land pirates, tourist trappers, gay young switchblades, softheaded bartenders and hard-nosed landlords...
...Northeast common stock, if the plan meets the approval of TWA's board, the CAB, stockholders and major creditors. Hughes will also lend $9,500,000 to Northeast from his Hughes Tool Co. to get its six, new, leased Convair 880 jets into operation for the Florida tourist season this winter...