Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program. I do not argue here that presidential libraries are unimportant, nor that this one in particular has been planned in a grandiose fashion. Quite the contrary, because the program has been imaginatively designed to depict the lives of John and Robert Kennedy, it will surely become a major tourist attraction...
...economic impact of such a large complex will also increase pressure to develop land commercially around Harvard Square. The fight last year over the height of the Holiday Inn presages the future. The inexorable trend toward high-rise and toward tourist related development would surely accelerate. Land prices in low-income residential neighborhoods would rise, continuing the pressure on low-income citizens to leave Cambridge. Land values in the more affluent neighborhoods will diminish as the congestion affects the desirability of Cambridge as an attractive residential community...
...other way of making a tire as light (often less than 200 grams per tire) or as strong (racers ride with tire pressures well over 100 pounds per square inch), or as easy to change. While a bicycle like this is designed for racing, the truly dedicated tourist may also insist on one. In the past few years, with the vast increase in the number of tourists (and in particular, rich tourists insisting that they need the very best), the demand for these bicycles has soared. A bicycle that sold for $170 only a few years ago, is now often...
...jailbird. Alcatraz was decommissioned as a prison in 1970 and is now part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area. Since it was opened to the public by the National Park Service last October, the U.S. equivalent of Devil's Island has become San Francisco's biggest tourist attraction...
According to present plans, Alcatraz will be operated as a tourist attraction only for the next five years. Ideas for its future use are solicited from the sightseers, who have suggested, variously, that it should eventually be turned into a West Coast Statue of Liberty, a crab farm, a U.N. memorial, a seminary, an Indian amusement park or a monument to the conquest of space. Some stern-vis-aged visitors think it should become a prison again, but others suggest simply giving it back to the pelicans...