Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany with retreating Nazi troops, and turned up in Brazil in 1946. Feeling himself safe from extradition (Brazilian law prohibits extradition for crimes that could lead to a death penalty), he did not bother to change his name, got married, had three children, and set up a thriving tourist-excursion service, first in Rio, then in São Paulo. His wife recalls no threats, no enemies. She does remember a recent acquaintance who called himself Anton Künzle and cabled Cukurs from Montevideo last Feb. 19, asking him to fly there...
...Zealand is working harder to make matters easier for tourists than Sir Robert Kerridge, an Auckland businessman who bought his first movie theater at 17, now runs 130 of them in a $28 million complex that also includes shipping, real estate, photographic and finance companies. Kerridge is convinced that changes in the blue laws and bolder private enterprise could eventually raise New Zealand's tourist business to $300 million, is conducting a one-man campaign to make New Zealand realize this potential. Putting his money where his mouth is, he has bought 63-acre Pakatoa Island near Auckland...
...Wide Yawn. With all its natural attractions, New Zealand hopes to attract more foreign tourists. Only 113,000 visited New Zealand last year (15,000 of them Americans), and most of them have to fly prop planes from Australia or Fiji to get there. So far, there has been little reason to come: most New Zealand hotels are dilapidated, service is poor, almost all bars close at 6 p.m. daily, there is practically no night life and a New Zealand Sunday is one wide yawn. The government is determined to improve matters, hopes that it can raise tourist income from...
...traveler can find an approved doctor for his sniffles or turista or worse in Amman (lordan), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) or Reykjavik (Iceland), as well as in such obvious tourist meccas as Paris (where the American Hospital is cooperating), Rome and Athens. The Soviet Union is not yet covered...
Switzerland boasts that it has more banks than dentists. There are, in all, 4,200 banking outlets, or one for every 1,300 people. The banks earned $295 million last year, nearly as much as the tourist industry, and attracted $568 million in foreign capital-on which the nation has long depended to offset its persistently large trade deficit...