Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Championship from Gardena, Calif ; N.C.A.A. Wrestling Championships from State College, Pa.; N.C.A.A. Skiing Championships from Steamboat Springs, Colo...
...fact that tourism is Vermont's No. 2 industry; each year, twelve times as many visitors pass through the state as there are Yankee natives (416,000). Most newspapers swung round to the view that proliferating billboards were striking a blow at the state's greatest tourist asset: its unspoiled wooded hills and valleys. Although one letter to the editor insisted that "good billboards are beautiful and break the monotony of a long motor trip," citizen mail to editors and legislators ran as much as 30-to-l in favor of the ban. Crucial to the passage...
...that tourists will still be able to find their way to hotels and restaurants once the billboards are down, Vermont will allow businesses to advertise in special state-owned "sign plazas," where signs will be uniform and state-approved. Business will also be able to advertise in a new guidebook to vacation facilities, to be passed out at major entry points to the state. The guidebook, Vermont tourist officials promise, will be "more widely distributed than the Gideon Bible...
...Administration devised packages of restrictions limiting the uses to which American citizens could put their dollars abroad. First came a tightening of President Kennedy's "voluntary" restraints against bank lending and corporate investment; finally, last January, came outright controls on capital and a controversial plan to tax tourist travel...
Because the U.S. balance of payments problem is crucial to the gold crisis and because U.S. tourists abroad spend $2 billion more a year than foreign visitors spend here, the Administration has urged a tax on travel outside the Western Hemisphere. The tourist-class wanderer this summer may find his trip to Europe costing an unexpected $100 in taxes. And if the gold crisis flares again, he may find that foreign hotels and banks will-as they did two weeks ago-refuse to accept his dollars or cash his traveler's checks until they feel more confident about...