Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with but one claim to fame: its mademoiselle, heroine of hundreds of World War I ditties, most of them dirty. For 50 years, it was a fame that Armentières preferred to leave unclaimed, but recently the town fathers have had a change of heart. Hoping for a tourist boom that might stimulate its sagging farm economy, Armentières last week began a fund-raising campaign for a statue in mademoiselle's, uh, honor...
Actually, says Tourist Bureau Chairman Louis Jeanson, 74, who, together with the local antique dealer, is in charge of the campaign, most of those hinky-dinky ditties about her were untrue. She was not a mademoiselle at all, but a tall, slim widow named Marie Lecoq who worked as a waitress at the Café de la Paix. Furthermore, during the four years that British and Commonwealth troops were stationed in Armentières, she was more virtuous than many of her unsung sisters. The ditty got its start, in fact, when she roundly slapped a British officer who tried...
Unfriendly Attack. There is, inevitably, a reverse side to the coin. This vast outflow of dollars?for aid, military assistance, business investment, tourist spending?has for 14 years exceeded the money flowing into the U.S. from its foreign transactions. Result: a chronic deficit in the U.S. balance of payments. What makes the payments deficit so serious is that each deficit dollar is like a check written against the gold supply of the U.S. Treasury, which is pledged to exchange foreign-held dollars for gold upon demand. Largely as a result of its payments deficit, the U.S. has suffered a steady...
...foreign ones be served at the White House and at all U.S. embassies, and by the use of Goldfinger posters to point up the balance-of-payments problem. The Government has also tried to get more tourists to see the U.S. first, but that drive has been a flop: tourist travel abroad is up 20% this year...
Usually Cooper was the taciturn, matter-of-fact command pilot, Pete Conrad the ebullient space tourist. On one pass he chattered with Astronaut Jim McDivitt, sitting as capsule communicator at Houston...