Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Franchise Sagan were dining and dancing. Brigitte Bardot arrived, then left when she could not find a maid. There were so many of the young, beautiful people from Paris that the town was being called St. Tropez-des-Près. In Antibes, Pablo Picasso good-humoredly cavorted for tourist cameras at the Restaurant Roger...
...Augustine, Fla., most of the previously white-only motels and restaurants began serving Negroes as soon as the Civil Rights Act became law. The owners wanted peace; racial violence already had cut the tourist trade by 50% . Yet a few days later, most places were resegregated. An army of white racists, the owners said, had forced them to lock out Negroes once more on pain of assault or worse...
There is still a formidable gap in the balance of travel: U.S. tourists spent $2 billion overseas last year, while foreign visitors will spend $375 million in the U.S. in 1964. But Americans are quickly getting the hang of catering to the tourist from abroad. So is the fledgling Government Tourist Agency, which spends $2,600,000 a year to plug the New World in ads and pamphlets, and has striven heroically to dispel the general impression that a trip to the U.S. is only for the rich. Even with generally unfavorable currency exchange rates, Europeans are astonished to find...
...twin-Diesel, stabilized and air-conditioned Bilu got under way, it has carried 10,000 passengers and over 1,000 cars-a success story that has set its owners to rushing the completion of a sister ship, the Nili, scheduled to be named this month. When the tourist traffic to Israel slows down in the fall, Bilu is scheduled to begin plying between Miami and Nassau, while Nili starts running between Southampton in England and Algeciras in Spain, with a stop at Le Havre...
...baffling." In Jordan, Knowles was lionized by King Hussein, and titillated by the prospect that he might lend a hand in writing the royal autobiography (a Briton got the job). Knowles pushed on to the Aegean islands. Everywhere, simple peasants were eager to welcome the camera-bearing tourist...