Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polynesian paradise of Tahiti, le grand tourist really let go. Aboard a navy cutter in Papeete Bay, De Gaulle perched his spectacles on his ample nose as outrigger canoes bearing lovely Polynesian girls passed in review. At a tamaaraa, the traditional Tahitian feast, the general sampled all the specialties: spinach with pork from earthen ovens, breadfruit, cooked bananas in coconut cream sauce. Everywhere, he plunged with a balance of glee and gravity into the smiling crowds shaking hands, and more than once was draped with leis and bussed by dusky native beauties in return...
...that followed the shooting, no one was quite sure whether there were three or four shots fired at the limousine; the commission held that the "preponderance of the evidence" indicated three, but there was still no real certainty as to which bullets caused which wounds. As reconstructed from a tourist's color movie film of the assassination, the sequence of events went like this: the President was hit once, as was graphically portrayed when his hands clutched his throat. An instant later, Governor Connally, seated on a jump seat in front of Kennedy, began to turn, and slowly slumped...
...towers rape the low skyline of cities that have evolved over centuries, who cares? They make such great tourist attractions that a commission of Hamburgers seriously suggested that their tower, now under construction, be designed with a built-in lean to woo tourist dollars away from Pisa. It won't, but there's a consolation: in addition to doing the things that other TV towers do-transmitting radio and TV signals and conventional phone calls-it will buzz any motorist equipped with a simple and inexpensive receiver, signaling him to go to a telephone and call his office...
Fast Footwork. S.E.T. is fraught with paradoxes. Its numerous critics note, among other things, that candy floss makers are given the tax break provided for manufacturers, but export agents, who contribute directly to Britain's earnings abroad, are taxed as service types. The whole tourist industry, Britain's fourth largest foreign-exchange earner, will be penalized as a service enterprise...
...turned out, neither objector will have to face the firing squad. In July, the first protesting Witness, George Roussopoulos, 22, was retried and sentenced to seven years in prison. Last week, after scattered international protests against the harsh penalty, including picketing of the Greek tourist office in New York and the Greek embassy...