Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told, 36 million tourists have spent $3.5 billion in Spain in the past five years, and at an ever increasing rate. Last year's tourist take alone was $1.1 billion, 20% higher than...
...industrialize is no exception. The flood of workers to the cities has sharply cut farm production, forcing Spain to import food. Government spending to feed the development plan has brought a new round of inflation at home, and a horrendous $2 billion trade deficit abroad-too much even for tourist dollars to make up for. Many economists fear that Spain is trying to do too much too quickly. "Our economy is the goose that lays the golden egg," warns Ullastres. "If you try to get four golden eggs at once, you're going to make the goose sick...
...night in a tiny shop where the dealer tries to arouse her interest in a highly compromising old bed. Eventually, she recaptures wedded bliss, but not until she lands by mistake in another wrong bed. In fact, she is the incarnation of a loud, bumptious, overdressed lady tourist on the town. Which raises another question: If Doris Day becomes America's bad-will ambassador abroad, what hope can there be for the plain folks back home...
Mayors everywhere are expected to be boosters, and Tashkent's Hunuddin Asamov is no exception. Last week he was busy extolling the tourist virtues of his ancient city in Soviet Central Asia to a pair of wary travelers: Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri. "We have planted parks and gardens, over 2,000,000 trees, 1,500,000 shrubs and 80 million flowers," wrote Asamov in an open letter. "Moreover, we Uzbeks have a saying: If two neighbors have an argument, go to the third, and you will always...
...than $2,000,000 worth of supplies for Viet Nam, though it disapproves of U.S. policy there. Premier Lee Kuan Yew is also considering making Singapore available as a rest spot for dollar-laden U.S. troops from Viet Nam. The most intriguing proposal, however, is for a gambling and tourist resort on Pulau Sajahat ("Naughty Island") off Singapore's coast. This Asian pleasure dome would feature greyhound racing, nightspots and hotels, could double Singapore's 90,000 tourists a year...