Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle personally vetoed the provisional permission, issued by the French Foreign Office last September, for the U.S. to reopen its consulate in Tahiti. The consulate had been closed after World War II for economy reasons, and the U.S. said it wanted to reopen it because of the upswing in tourist trade, but De Gaulle let it be known that he saw through that. Obviously, the Americans were secretly planning to spy on the first French H-bomb tests, which are expected in 1967 or 1968 on an island 750 miles from Tahiti...
...sleazy, wide-open border town of Tijuana attracts hundreds of pleasure-bent college students each spring. One band of California youngsters, 300 strong, had more to show for their Mexican trip this year than hangovers or tourist trinkets. They spent Easter vacations in Tijuana's forlorn slum district, building an X-ray clinic, a food and drug warehouse, a free-milk bar for youngsters and a 16-crib hospital for infants...
Immortal Face. The U.S. gave Legson quite a reception, but he seems to have accepted everything that came his way with a grave and innocent equanimity. In the capital, he endured the standard tourist treatment, discovered the "sweet relationship" between waffles and syrup, stood in the Lincoln Memorial and "timidly waved at the immortal face." Skagit Valley College received him with a banner and a banquet. The family that "adopted" him had redecorated the spare bedroom. Neighbors stopped in with cakes. Huntley-Brinkley televised him. Some will pin the word "naive" on Legson's wide-eyed good will...
With foreign-exchange earnings from tourism dwindling, the French Government Tourist Office is now trying to change things with a campaign to "revive the French tradition of hospitality and courtesy." It cannot do much about prices (hotels and restaurants are already up 10% since last year), but State Secretary for Tourism Pierre Dumas is launching a $200,000 "campaign of welcome and amiability." Customs inspectors at major airports are being told not to think of themselves as "agents of repression." Instead, each arriving female tourist will receive a tiny bottle of Weil's Antilope and a single rose...
...encourage concierges, waiters, taxi drivers and the like, each tourist will receive a "carnet de cheques-sourire" (checkbook of smiles), with tickets that he can tear out and distribute (along with his tip) as a reward for especially cheerful service. At the end of the season, 50 beaming Frenchmen with the largest number of smiles will win a brand-new car, a free vacation to Tahiti or the West Indies, or another prize. Will it work? One skeptical tourist official sighs, "Parisians are born complainers-they don't even like each other, not to mention tourists." And he shrugs...