Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these reservations, however, most of the people in Lake Placid are working hard to make the Olympics a success in the hope that the Games will boost the village's tourist trade in the years to come. Their efforts are understandable. The village's first Olympics in 1932 put Lake Placid on the country's winter sports map; the 1980 Games could change the map itself...
...perspectives of history, the mad have not been out of sight for very long. As recently as 1800, they were tourist attractions. Every Sunday thousands of paying visitors would go to watch them caper and babble in Bethlehem Hospital ("Bedlam") in London or the Bicetre in Paris. In the 19th century, philanthropy suppressed that, and shame closed the asylums to view, so that insanity was not only confined but also hidden. Our own culture, despite its vast interest in neurosis, has not been able to forgive its madmen their lunacy. Thus the last taboo subject for photography...
...felt the effect of the dollar's drop most immediately and directly, especially in such countries as West Germany and Switzerland, where the greenback's decline against local currency has been severe. In Switzerland the franc has risen 25% against the dollar in the past year. A tourist couple may well spend $45 for a not particularly lavish dinner with a bottle of wine, v. $36 a year ago-even though the price of the meal in Swiss francs has not changed. In West Germany, where the inflation rate has been running at about 4%, Americans exchanging their...
...tended to some last-minute domestic affairs. He nominated Businessman G. William Miller as Federal Reserve chairman and promoted James Mclntyre Jr. to Director of the Office of Management and Budget (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). But Carter spent most of his time getting ready for his trip. Like any other tourist headed for Asia, he took pills to ward off malaria and was inoculated against cholera and typhoid. He pored over thick briefing books. He packed a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu holy book...
...thing Egypt can always rely on is its own glittering past. The pyramids and temples that awed adventurers from Caesar to Napoleon are irresistible still, magnets for tourist dollars, marks and yen that Egypt must have to help surmount its present problems. "Egypt is a dusty city and a green tree," said Amr ibn al As, the Arab general who conquered the country for Islam's warriors in the 7th century. "The Nile traces a line through the midst of it; blessed are its early-morning voyages and its travels at eventide...