Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again last December a delegation arrived for talks, as usual led by Mr. Ellsworth Bunker, the former ambassador to Vietnam: they stayed for the inside of a week on the pleasant tourist island of Contadura where it had become a habit to hold such parleys, then they went home...
...date. The main festivities, however, will take place in June because, explains a palace spokesman, "February is no time to conduct a celebration." The summer jubilee events will include parades, river pageants, bonfires and visits by the Queen to nearly every corner of the British Isles. The British Tourist Authority has issued a 32-page booklet listing scores of 25th-anniversary events before and after the national thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral on June 7. Even London's transit authority is getting into the spirit: a fleet of 25 silver-painted double-decker buses will tool...
...seemed less awed by the transformation than Carter himself. With Rosalynn and nine-year-old Amy in tow, he strolled like a tourist up the driveway to his new home. "Where do I live?" he asked White House Chief Usher Rex Scouten. Scouten promptly led the family upstairs to the presidential quarters that had only that morning been vacated by the Fords...
...once secured a cherished ?5 note from Lloyd George. The younger (Jacob Brooke) then launches on a bravura monologue about a train journey across the map of the U.S. that contains every old movie cliche, engrained national myth, sentimental hyperbole and travel-brochure bait ever known to a British tourist, or to many an American for that matter. As Brooke masterfully delivers it, this becomes a manic poetic aria of cumulative exhilaration...
...there is reason for both optimism that it can and despairing fear that it cannot. Physically, at least, the enormous rebuilding task has already begun. The luxurious Vendome, least damaged of the tourist hotels in Beirut's seaside hotel district, managed to get refurbished and reopened in time for New Year's. At the urging of Syrian-backed President Elias Sarkis, a former director of Lebanon's central bank, most of Beirut's banks-there were 73 of them clustered around Riad Solh Street before the war-will officially resume business on Jan. 17. Many...