Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania's Roger Penske, 27: a sweep of the first two major races in the Bahamas Speed Weeks, at Nassau's twisting, 4.5-mi. Oakes Field race course. Driving a Corvette Grand Sport, Penske averaged 95.5 m.p.h. to win the Tourist Trophy race for sports cars, switched to a Chevrolet-powered Chaparral to beat A. J. Foyt for the Governor's Cup, averaging a record 100.1 m.p.h. for the 112.5-mi. race...
...other respects, American Samoa -seven volcanic islands and two coral atolls 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii -is trading old romance for new bustle. It has a jet airport and zip code numbers for outlying villages; a Pan Am subsidiary has leased a 100-room tourist inn to compete with the old Rainmaker Hotel. Most striking of all, the whole Samoaft school system has been turned over to television...
Considering this qualified opinion (the area turned a profit with its very first year of full operations last season) with the facts that the state of Vermont is spending heavily on road improvement in the area in anticipation of an expanding tourist industry, and that soon a nearby exchange to the Interstate Turn-pike will put Boston less than two and one-half hours away, the future doesn't look too risky at that...
Awaiting the Johnsons at the ranch was some good news. Across the Pedernales River from the ranch, local promoters had been planning to set up a kind of tourist trap with curio shops and snack bars, motels and filling stations...
...blue and highly venomous hairy tarantula which catches and devours Presidents, senators, diplomats, congressmen and cabinet officers." After commissioning Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to build a memorial to Marian in Washington's Rock Creek Park, he took off on a slow boat to the South Seas. Like any tourist, he drank in the "purple mist and souffle" scenery, ogled the fetching island beauties. One erotic dance called for a kiss. "Mine was a good square kiss," Adams reported, "squarely returned...