Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sadly learned-but boars do fine. So do bears, stags, hares, fallow deer, and every other Eastern European game species. As a result, scores of Western sportsmen last week were crossing the Iron Curtain for an annual shotgun wedding of East and West in which commissars pile up tourist dollars and jaded capitalist hunters bag big-game thrills...
...full day a week for herself. For guidance, she can turn to subsidiary facilities -clubs where au pairs can go to compare notes, counseling service to use if she is discontent. Meanwhile the experience of moving into an adopted family permits her insights into another civilization that no tourist can hope...
Though this survey and others by competent economists show the need for drastic fiscal reform, Bellotti's proposals are hardly adequate. He would "foster the tourist trade," which is a pleasant idea but certainly unequal to the crisis. He would "be on the spot in Washington" to corner for Massachusetts all possible Federal grants and programs, again a commendable proposal but one which Volpe put into practice nearly four years ago. Bellotti would establish a state Economic Research Council, a fine liberal proposal in itself, but one that sounds more like liberal cant when contrasted with his general apathy toward...
...sewers alone, but all the things that offend the typical tourist in Spain -stalled trains, unpredictable electricity, fire engines screaming like "Amazon howling monkeys"-delight Honor Tracy in this brief and lively travel book. She is entertained by what most tourists never even notice: "The men maintained their usual impassive demeanor" and, dressed in corduroy suits and broad black hats, looked "out from the dusty taverns hour after hour, silent, neither drinking nor playing cards, as if merely waiting for the end of the world...
Actually, Author Tracy concludes, the tourist should not worry too much about understanding Spain. Spaniards ask very little of him: "Foreigners in Spain should humbly recognize that their principal charm is their money, and their only virtue a readiness to part with...