Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newsmen. What of events back home? "Obviously, my heart is bleeding." One more move, north of the border? "It would depend on whether we were welcome." Henry Kissinger, for one, certainly believes they should be. Last week he admitted pressing Mexican authorities to issue the Shah his 90-day tourist visa. Said he: "I felt the U.S. had a moral obligation to stand by a man who had been a friend...
...gazed up at the Cheops pyramid, shopped in the bazaars and once even cried out, "This is one of the happiest days of my life!" In other words, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, 64, behaved like any other tourist on his first trip to Cairo and environs. Visiting, by coincidence, on the twelfth anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Dayan was in town with his wife Rachel to talk to Egyptian officials about opening the borders between their two countries. At one point a storeowner proudly showed him a copy of a pharaonic deity. "It's very nice...
Suddenly, driving distances seem to be reckoned in tankfuls, not miles. Being "just a tankful away" is now the come-on for cottages, motels and beaches. So far, tourist centers within a tank of major cities have not suffered appreciably from the gas shortage: attendance at Williamsburg, Va., 158 miles from Washington, B.C., has actually been up, and Disneyland, which is only 27 miles from metropolitan Los Angeles, also reports increased patronage. Businesses in areas that are more isolated, like Las Vegas, the Florida Everglades and Lake Tahoe, though, have suffered. Overall weekend automobile travel in the U.S. is down...
...means of a system of excessive "loyalty" checks. The law has since been modified and now exempts individuals who may have belonged to extremist organizations in the past but are no longer members. Abroad, the residual "Ugly German" image has not been dissipated by the 26 million West German tourists who annually seek the sun (vacations for industrial workers average 4½ weeks a year); as travelers, Germans often come on strong, flaunting their deutsche marks, in the old image of the American tourist...
...exiled Shah's residence problems may be resolving, at least temporarily. Mexico announced last week that he is eligible for a "tourist card," which would allow him to stay for six months and could then be renewed. Mexican officials expect him to arrive soon from the Bahamas, where he has spent the past two months...