Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy seemed more like an eager office hunter on the hustings than a tourist in Poland. As thousands of Poles cheered him on a half-day visit to Cracow, Kennedy turned to the city's mayor and joked, "I am going to announce my candidacy for the mayoralty of Cracow...
...eyes and hiked skirts, "mooning at the sun," as the Swedes say. Restaurant tables are laden with summer delicacies: crayfish, trout in sour cream, fresh eels, wild strawberries. In the milky gloaming that passes for night, Copenhagen cabarets work double shifts, and the nightlong sounds of revelry prompt a tourist official's tip: "Have fun in Denmark. Sleep in the next country...
That major American export, the tourist, is once again beginning to fan out across what Novelist Nancy Mitford's Uncle Matthew used to call "bloody abroad." The old familiar faces -collegian and schoolteacher, all-expenser and retiree-are about to turn up in the old familiar places, at the old familiar prices...
Gamble on Change. Last week lines of tourists bought up pounds, francs and yen from Deak's Perera Co., busiest currency exchange in the U.S. and only one of Deak's skein of 20 currency "stores." The tourist trade is a small part of Deak's business; his plumpest profits come from the active shufflings of currencies in crisis. "Whenever countries are not stable," says Deak, "their currencies are heavily traded." Currency speculators and companies operating in inflation-ridden countries such as Brazil or Italy try to conserve the value of their cash by buying or selling...
...reached the takeoff point. The 8,344-mile national railway system is being overhauled at a cost of $1 billion. Unemployment has dropped from 8% in 1959 to 1.5%. About 400,000 men are working in neighboring nations, and the $193 million they sent home last year, along with tourist income, more than offset a chronic trade deficit...