Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motels. Formerly closed cities are being opened up, and internal flight schedules are being expanded. This fall, Pan Am and Aeroflot expect to commence direct flights between New York and Moscow (9 hr. 10 min., $548 on the 21-day excursion plan). And to make sure the tourist flow keeps up, Intourist, the state-run travel agency, is now priming the pump in good capitalist fashion with a $1,000,000-a-year advertising budget abroad...
...Shark is a middle-aged tourist hypnotized by the lure of Las Vegas, and his fling at the gaming tables provides the atmospheric opening section of this week's Essay on gambling. Ray the Shark is better known as Ray Kennedy, associate editor of TIME. As the Essay's author, he could not resist the rare opportunity of writing himself into a story. The first thing that struck him during several days of research in Las Vegas was the lavishness of the accommodations. Checking into a motel with his wife Patsy, he was offered a room with...
...land. It contains nearly a third of the arable farm land, nearly half the population-and Jerusalem. With U.S. and British aid, long-range development programs and expanded tourism, Hussein had expected to make his country self-supporting by 1971. Without the west bank, however, and the strong tourist revenues from the Old City of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, there is little possibility that Jordan can ever develop a really viable economy...
...there are no longer any jobs left. Unemployment already stood at 14% before the war, has now hit 25%. Last year, the west bank of the Jordan brought in well over half of the nation's foreign-currency earnings. Without it, Jordan stands to lose most of its tourist earnings of $35 million a year...
...result of the Middle East oil embargo (see WORLD BUSINESS), Iraq's gold reserves are expected to dip perilously low. In Syria, which lost the vital revenues from two oil pipelines, the capital city of Damascus began rationing food last week. Lebanon's $85 million-a-year tourist industry, meantime, has all but dried up. Hardest hit is Jordan: it lost not only the tourist-rich Old City of Jerusalem but, at least for the time being, the agricultural lands on the west bank of the Jordan River. In Washington last week, King Hussein did not have...