Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...load them onto ships. Britain prudently cancelled the scheduled visit of Prince Richard of Gloucester, a representative of the Queen, to the independence ceremonies and alerted a warship to stand by to evacuate foreigners in case of violence. The U.S. State Department advised Americans to look for another tourist paradise. Tourism, which used to bring in 130,000 visitors each year, has totally evaporated...
...good climate and cheap labor (skilled factory workers make $6 a day). The government would allow raw materials to enter the zone and finished products to leave it with virtually no taxation. To the south, along the canal on Lake Timsah, Osman has dreams of building a $125 million tourist resort. "The investment could be recouped in four years," he optimistically told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn...
...kills a young woman who is swimming alone at night. When bits of her body wash ashore the next morning, there is no mistaking what has happened, but the town fathers persuade Police Chief Martin Brody not to close the beaches. After all, it is the beginning of the tourist season, rentals are lag ging anyway, and with luck the thing will rumble off to Patagonia, or at least to East Hampton...
...Donald Sutherland character, at least, is engaged in an intellectual, noble activity--saving Venice. The couple go to Venice to get over their daughter's death. Venice here is a beautiful city but with a feeling of danger about it. It is late autumn, the end of the tourist season, damp and windy. The strange Venetian cats are vaguely frightening. And as John says of the church he's working on: "The deeper we get the more Byzantine it gets...
...There's hordes of characters who fit the general pattern, and some wild ones too. There's a guy who lives between St. Augustine and Jacksonville who looks like Dan'l Boone, with buckskins and beard, and lives in an abandoned tourist camp. He's an old time musician mebbe 37-years-old, been giggin for 15. He carries a sawed-off shot gun and has a herd of goats runnin through his yard and a chicken house and a coupla hogs. He's real reclusive and don't want to meet nobody and he certainly knows the pleasures...