Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cutoff was aimed at further damaging Gibraltar's already dented commerce. Due to earlier harassments, the colony's tourist-based economy has declined 40% in the past two years. Now anyone who wants to visit Gibraltar will have to either fly in, cross the border on foot, or come by sea. Foodstuffs that previously were trucked in from Spain now will have to come by boat from Morocco. Already there is a shortage of fresh milk. Declared Gibraltar's colonial Governor Sir Gerald Lathbury in a radio broadcast to the colony: "We have reached a milestone...
...swimming only 50 miles from the border. He might better have headed for home. While he relaxed, the police learned that he had been convicted of burglary and auto theft in the U.S. Besides, he was technically a fugitive from a Texas mental hospital, and he had signed his tourist's card with his brother's name (because the car was registered in that name). Most important, Mexico was crying for an arrest...
...March of 1961, largely on the strength of Hilda's alleged identification. Although an appellate court tossed out that key evidence as illegal in 1962, the original trial judge simply pronounced Simmons guilty once more on the basis of disputed facts and such other items as his falsified tourist card and "penal antecedents." In 1964 the Mexican Supreme Court upheld that verdict; last month Simmons' bid for legal exoneration by the state's governor was turned down...
...pastel mink coats for $1,175, much less than the usual price, has already sold "several thousand." Last year Neckermann established his own travel service, and it is already the biggest air-charter-tour outfit in West Germany. He is offering, for instance, 17 days in India for $400 tourist class and $635 for "special maharajah service...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The National Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Championships in Peoria, 111., and the World Roller Skating Championships in Essen, Germany...