Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speedup that was overtaking Tahoe, and which imperils many another U.S. lake of natural beauty, is the population-cum-recreation explosion. In 1956, Tahoe was a drowsy summer paradise of about 3,000 residents; by 1965, it was a turbulent tourist mecca of gaudy gambling casinos, glaring neon bar strips, and other commercialized enticements playing to camping-room-only crowds. Now with just under 6,000,000 visitors annually, even the foresight that led the South Tahoe Public Utilities District to build and thrice expand its sewage disposal plant from 1958 on has proved woefully inadequate; the plant, with...
...discouraged. The festival, financed with $170,000 raised by the community, was conceived as a "cultural counterattack" on the "sex, suds and sand reputation" of Daytona, and such things take time. Says Festival Director Tippen Davidson: "Something was needed to round out our tourist image-not just naked girls being bounced on a beach blanket...
...Limited to $140 the amount of money a British tourist may take out of the country annually...
Devaluation Dangers. Despite the uproar, sterling recovered in the wake of Wilson's announcement to a healthy $2.79 1/16. Whether it would stay healthy was the question that international bankers were asking. They noted that such reforms as cuts in tourist allowances and overseas spending would take months to have any effect. What worried them most was that the key feature-the wage, price and dividend freeze-was voluntary, and the trade unions seemed reluctant to cooperate...
...churches in Denmark's North Sea province of West Jutland, the Rev. Eilif Krogager, 56, has worked for 31 years to set the feet of his parishioners firmly on the road to heaven. Unlike other clerics, Krogager can also send his flock skyward by jet: he runs a tourist agency that is the fastest growing in all of Scandinavia. His Tjaereborg Travels this year will do a $30 million business booking trips for 170,000 people, including 10,000 leaving this week for Western and Southern Europe and North Africa. Through ten subsidiary companies, Tjaereborg owns a fleet...