Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hired a caretaker couple full time, and made thousands of rubles by renting out porches, rooms and cottages to dachniks at excessive prices. A dacha need not be grand: a peasant's hut qualifies as a dacha when one room or a veranda is rented to a summer tourist...
...jaded, well-heeled tourist who has been everywhere, Kenya has something new in jungle sumptuousness. When his jet plane touches down in Nairobi, he is met by a brace of Rolls-Royces with zebra-skin upholstery. The cars whisk 125 miles north across Kikuyu country and draw up before the lush green lawns of the Mount Kenya Safari Club. Stretching away to either side are bamboo forests where roam the elephant and rhinoceros. Above towers snow-clad Mount Kenya, soaring 17,040 ft. into the equatorial sky. At sunset, guests are thrilled by the throb of tribal drums...
...Shrugged one: "They will never get rid of us," and another added the dark threat always heard at such times: "Women will be attacked on the street by our former clients. They simply need us." The public prosecutor insisted that he was closing down Amsterdam's greatest unadvertised tourist attraction for good. But Dutch cynics recalled three other civic attempts to clean up De Walletjes in the past 50 years. The girls always came back...
Irish Mist. Honolulu hotspots run from the honky-tonks of Hotel Street to the posh tourist traps at Waikiki, but measured by the quality of the entertainment, they all amble along at their old, pre-statehood pace. The Japanese businessman at the Ginza Club sees the same show that titillates the sailors at Bill Pacheco's Oasis. The strippers could never make the big-time spots, but they sport the manufactured Stateside names that are the hallmark of their trade-Irish Mist, Martini Martin, etc. They are small competition for the low-paid song-and-dance girls imported from...
...industrial city of Kassel, Germany, is off the tourist track, and its art museum has only 60,000 visitors a year (as against 200,000 each for Munich and Cologne). Yet Kassel's Gemaeldegalerie can boast of one of the world's most brilliant collections of early German and Flemish paintings, topped by no fewer than 19 Rembrandts. Kassel can thank the art-loving Landgrave Wilhelm VIII, who ruled Hesse from 1751 to 1760. As a youth, Wilhelm did military service in the Low Countries, fell in love with Flemish art, and got in the habit of collecting...