Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subordinate-not necessarily. The national effort to give blacks a more equitable share of the nation's goods and benefits has had results-uneven but undeniable. Increasingly, blacks are seen in offices of corporations and banks, in classrooms of elite colleges, in officers' clubs, affluent suburbs, theaters, tourist haunts. Says Daniel C. Thompson, chairman of the sociology department at New Orleans' predominantly black Dillard University: "Being black and qualified is the most valuable commodity in American society...
...first the KGB mailed these false letters from Prague, using the return address of the well-known author and psychiatrist Josef Nesvadba. Later they supposedly were sent by a certain Ottokar Gorsky, whose home address was given as 1, Revolution Street, the location of the Czechoslovak airline and tourist offices. But Gorsky's telephone number indicated that he lived in another district-which happens to be the location both of the Soviet embassy and the Czechoslovak secret police...
From the beginning, the project's chief proponent, Jacqueline Kennedy, has desired the Library to be exciting for young people, and a melting pot for all of Boston's as well as Harvard's students. The melting-pot idea has tarnished a bit, with the Library's tourist-attraction aura toned down, but there is still enough of a potential traffic problem to warrant the environmental study and the crowd estimates...
...Oliveira Salazar suffered a stroke. (Salazar died in 1970.) To emphasize the continuity of power despite the coup, the general went to Lisbon's Portela Airport the next morning to bid farewell to Caetano, Thomaz and their senior Cabinet Ministers; they were jetted to exile on the tourist island of Madeira...
...Kennedy Library has become simply boring. The City Council and the Library Corporation had better decide what they want--most likely a compromise of just a library without the tourist-generating museum--and pull us out of the 12-year miasma before August 1 when the MBTA vacates the land...