Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regime's worst trouble was its gradually deteriorating economic situation. Though Egypt has found markets for most of its basic cotton crop, these were mainly in Communist and neutral countries to which Egypt was already in debt. With tourist traffic cut to a trickle and all canal revenues blocked, the foreign-exchange shortage was approaching the crisis point. Business in Cairo was at a standstill, disrupted by the expulsion and departure under pressure of thousands of Jews and other foreigners. The middle class, hardest hit by the economic crush, began turning against the regime...
...your Dec. 17 article "The Delinquent Teachers": please add harassed parents to the list of long-suffering chambers of commerce, corporations and tourist bureaus which would like to staunch the flow of booklet-type assignments by teachers. In the elementary grades particularly, these booklets must be liberally laced with pictures to be acceptable. Pupil A must have as many (or more) pictures as pupil B, or pupil A's booklet won't stand a chance of being displayed on the wall...
This first novel is an attempt to get inside the mind of Juanito, an illiterate village Indian from the mountains of Mexico. Every tourist there has seen his like: thin-headed, with a mop of coarse black hair, large-eyed, flat-nosed, full-lipped, looking with impassive dignity from beneath a frayed straw hat. Juanito is the stuff of revolutions, but his private revolutions fail, and he has learned only one thing in life: how to die well...
...from a three-week U.S. publicity triumph, rushed to New York's International Airport, Paris-bound with her toy poodle, a black mite aptly named Toy, sharing a first-class booking with Maria. Her retinue also included her husband, Millionaire Italian Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini, ticketed modestly as a tourist-class passenger, but described in a lawsuit earlier in the week by Maria as the man "who owns me as a husband." At the airport, Diva Callas bumped into another tourist-class passenger, none other than fur-collared Baritone Enzo Sordello, fired from the Met fortnight ago because, claimed Sordello...
With such double-edged greetings blazoned on placards, the people of Burma last week greeted Tourist Chou En-lai to their shores. It was a cruel come-uppance for the Red Chinese Premier, whose sweep through neutralist Asia during the past few weeks had been marked throughout by the smiling affability of a hungry cat in a fish store. India had smiled right back at him, as had Cambodia. On his previous tour to Burma a year ago, Chou had been greeted by well-organized but nonetheless enthusiastic crowds. But since the Red Chinese forays across Burma's border...