Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moviemaker Rogosin, the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer (Beaunit Mills), made Come Back, Africa (the title is a translation of an African National Congress slogan) mostly at his own expense, and the film altogether cost close to $70,000. He entered South Africa as a tourist, lived there for almost a year before he felt ready to roll his cameras. In April 1958 he applied for government permission to make "a musical travelogue." After two months of palaver with six suspicious federal bureaus, Rogosin got his permit. He dashed off his script in less than a week, then shot...
Sightseeing companies, whose business is tourists, are frequently confused by foreigners. A Los Angeles agency accepted a tour for a large party of wealthy Brazilians, who paid in advance for a driver who could speak their language. The agency provided a Mexican who spoke Castilian Spanish, was baffled when the Brazilians were not satisfied. Said the tour manager plaintively: "They wanted someone who could speak Portuguese Spanish." To help eliminate such troubles, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson has introduced a bill to set up a federal U.S. tourist bureau...
...week. Just back with his wife Marjorie from a wildlife-conservation survey of British East Africa, Big Gamester Osborn, who hunts strictly with a camera, reported: "While poaching continues to be a very serious problem, there is a growing awareness among African leaders that big game is a prime tourist attraction and must be saved." His prediction : the U.N. will soon be establishing game sanctuaries all over the world as "longterm assets in all countries...
...bravery was an evangelistic asset. In three successive towns in Galatia, for example, Paul and Barnabas were expelled with violence (in one Paul was nearly stoned to death), but they returned and organized churches. In Ephesus, the makers of souvenir silver models of the temple of Artemis for the tourist trade organized a spectacular riot against Paul and his fellow Christians because of their bad-for-business denunciations of idolatry...
...With her sister ship, the still-building, 40,000-ton Oriana, the Canberra will give P. & O. a commanding lead in Pacific passenger travel. Since it first sailed in these waters in 1954, P. & 0. has undercut the luxury-minded Matson and American President lines by emphasizing low-cost tourist-class rates; next year alone, the company will boost its berth facilities for Pacific travel...