Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church for as little as $35,000 by using laminated southern pine. He proved equally adept at designing commercial structures. A flower-shaped furniture showroom in laminated redwood pulled business right off the highway. His Warm Mineral Springs Inn, sheltered by 75 overlapping concrete shells suggestive of the nearby tourist-touted "Fountain of Youth," was such a successful traffic-stopper that the luxury motel was forced to add an additional wing...
...closed-circuit television for passengers while the ship is at sea. Designed with an aluminum superstructure to save weight, and engines aft to give passengers more deck space, the liner will carry as many passengers as Cunard's Queen Elizabeth. It will have almost three times as many tourist as first-class passengers (1,650 to 600) to entice budget-conscious travelers...
...curtailing his propaganda opportunities, his hosts successfully resisted Nikita's demand for equal time on Paris' city hall steps, where President Eisenhower spoke last September. They also held out against his demand to visit Strasbourg, suspecting that there, on the Franco-German border itself, the Soviet tourist might let fly with a tirade against the Germans...
...effect May 1 and Oct. 1. were designed in part to avert price wars between I.A.T.A. members in areas where they were being undercut by other airlines. In some cases, propeller ticket prices were cut more than jet-flight fares. The airlines will also drop the de luxe and tourist-fare classes, offer only first-and economy-class travel...
With the resumption of diplomatic ties with Bulgaria, Hungary becomes the only Eastern European country for which U.S. tourist passports are still marked "not valid" for travel. Bulgaria's capital of Sofia (pop. 700,000) is a pleasant city of broad avenues and parks, and has an Intourist-style hotel as garishly new, as poorly heated as Moscow's latest. Bulgaria itself remains Europe's second most backward nation (after Albania). Its farms are 95% collectivized, and outside observers concede that it is perhaps the one satellite nation where many peasants feel, if not happy, at least...