Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hefner's pad on Chicago's North State Parkway has become a considerable tourist attraction, with guided tours available to anyone who has a minimum of pull. It is also the monument to a major American business success story. Unlike other Chicago businesses, the enterprise is not founded on steel, grain or transportation, but on a magazine. One of the great publishing successes since World War II, Playboy was started in 1953 with a 70,000 press run, now has a 4,000,000 circulation...
...ramshackle home of the city's wholesale produce market, will soon be cleared by urban renewal. The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency sold the land for a bargain $11.5 million, but the city expects a $3,000,000-a-year bonanza in realty taxes, plus increased convention and tourist trade. Says Redevelopment Director M. Justin Herman: "We held out to find one buyer who had the strength and sophistication to do the whole project. You can't get design value except with size...
...Washington's Birthday the group will open a tourist information booth in the State House...
Most of all it teaches something to its participants. Volunteers for the tourist information center are urged to take at least one course in Massachusetts history, literature, or natural history each year from the Department of Education's Extension Service which has agreed to provide the instruction without charge. To train volunteers working on pollution problems, it organized a special course in City Conservation...
...replacing Eastern's piston planes, Air-Shuttle passengers get to buy a ticket and read their own newspaper. American's Jet Express, by contrast, offers two-class service, continental breakfast, $1 drinks after 11:30 a.m. and coffee any time - while matching the Shuttle with a $16 tourist fare and 16 daily flights...