Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin Wall approached its second anniversary, Communist police assigned to guard it were themselves defecting at the rate of one a day. At Checkpoint Charlie two guards, screened momentarily by a tourist bus crossing from the West, stepped smilingly over the white dividing line. On the River Elbe a 50-year-old boatman packed his wife and three children into a stolen motor launch, put-putted to freedom. Two men rowed a kayak across the Baltic to Denmark. The 20-year-old stepdaughter of an East German army colonel slipped through barbed wire south of the Wall, reported that East...
...Originally 59, but one tourist died in Santiago during a predawn swim, apparently of a heart attack...
Since 1961, moneymaking tourism from the West has increased 40% in Bulgaria, more than 200% in Hungary. With capitalistic resourcefulness, the Communists heavily advertise their attractions in the West. Hungary bought the motels of the 1958 Brussels world's fair and set them down in four tourist towns along Lake Balaton. Bulgaria has built 78 new seaside hotels in the past decade and Rumania about 50. Most of the new Black Sea resorts smack more of Miami than of Moscow, and often practice segregation-Westerners only. While Western tourists (mostly European) at first ventured East out of curiosity, they...
...colonial possession for 175 years. Our great problem after that was to establish stable government . . . Today our hearts are with those people who are having a like experience." Then, as if to show that the Chief Justice of a stable government can get off his high horse, he turned tourist, visited mosques and pyramids, even playfully stuck his head up from behind the shoulders of a decapitated statue in the Cairo Museum...
...companies now realize that their thousands of service stations offer ideal retail locations for one-stop shopping and tourist centers. Sohio and Jersey Standard are setting up roadside restaurants that cook instant meals in microwave ovens. Pure Oil plans a chain of 80 "TOURest" centers that will include a motel, an Aunt Jemima pancake house (for which it owns the franchise) and filling stations. Gulf Oil plans to invest $40 million in the Holiday Inns motel chain, and American Oil is installing automatic dry cleaners on its properties. Atlantic Refining is putting up garden-supply centers and shops that sell...