Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irazú, the only mountain in the world that has its own cabinet minister and a private retinue of physicians. Irazú has rated such attentions since March 13, 1963, when it started spouting enormous clouds of hot ash and became the country's top menace and tourist attraction (TIME, Jan. 17). Sightseers can park near the lip of the crater and actually stare down into the billowing pit. Usually the prevailing wind blows the ash away from the spectators, but last week Irazú took antitourist action. With a sudden, violent explosion it lashed out at its admirers...
...time gamblers." Cannes? Monte Carlo? Vegas? Not quite. Freeport, in tiny Grand Bahama Island, is not even marked on many maps. Yet Freeport boosters already call it the Riviera of the Americas, vow that in time the bustling little town will become one of the Caribbean's biggest tourist and industrial centers...
...British Bahamian islands, the tiny rock looks big. For the tourist, there is an average temperature of 76°, fresh water aplenty (if that's what he wants), miles of beaches and a swash buckling past peopled by buccaneers and Prohibition rumrunners. Even to day, one Freeport beer baron still uses his old Chicago sobriquet, "Shotgun John." For the industrialist, there is total exemption from corporate, personal and export taxes, and the kind of environment to attract executive talent...
After shooting a movie in Cambodia, British Actor Peter (Becket) O'Toole reported his typical tourist's reaction: "At 4 a.m., someone bangs on the door to deliver your laundry. 'Bug off,' I'd say, which is evidently Cambodian for 'Come in.' They'd come right ahead, with some paper to sign. Paper, paper, paper, sheaves of it. That's always a sign when a country's about to go to hell. Chits for everything...
...transatlantic airlines are flying higher now than at any time since they introduced tourist-class fares...