Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perelman wrote the film script for the Mike Todd spectacular.) Perelman's traveling companion was not Passepartout but a 6-ft. 1-in. "toothsome cupcake" named Sally-Lou Claypool. Aboard H.M.S. Choleria, 19th century British sang-froid bunks amiably with the 20th century cynicism of a hornswoggled American tourist...
...heavily dependent on imported oil and has suffered severe consequences as a result. But New Jersey will not sit by silently as the federal bureaucracy rushes headlong into a program that will benefit the oil companies at the expense of a state's priceless Atlantic coastal beaches and tourist industry...
...story Hughes drew on reports from Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, who provided details about the looting of Italian art. A "dedicated tourist," Bonfante has witnessed the "systematic defoliation of Italian art" for several years, and shares Hughes' view that art thieves "deteriorate our lives. What they are stealing is our collective memory. If it goes on, there will come a day when you will be fingerprinted before you can go into a museum and watched when you are inside by submachine-gun-toting goons...
...year-rounders, the winter means isolation, bad weather and hardship. The small towns that line the Outer Cape--Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truvo and Provincetown--depend economically almost exclusively on tourism. The creation of the National Seashore in 1961 insured the tourist trade during the summer by protecting the beaches and ponds of the Cape, but after Thanksgiving, few visitors are attracted; the motels, shops and restaurants close, and unemployment soars. In the winter, food stamps become a common sight in Wellfleet's First National supermarket and the number of welfare recipients and those on unemployment climbs...
...would come just in time. The airline lost an estimated $75 million in 1974 and $165 million in the five years before that. This year's prospects offer little cheer for the airline. Jet fuel costs are still at record highs, the recession is cutting into tourist travel, and payments are constantly coming due on the company's huge debt...