Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska legislature was considering whether to take the U.S. Government up on its bargain-basement offer. The trouble is, Alaskans cannot agree on what they would do with POW if they owned it. Some want to make it the new state capital. Others want to turn it into a tourist resort, or perhaps a sort of deep-freeze Las Vegas. There was a move on to acquire it for a penitentiary; the state's jails are now badly overcrowded. But the plan was defeated when people realized that existing prisons would just fill up again with lawbreakers...
Just a minor traffic violation, and could he please see the license and registration? The Roman traffic cop's eyebrows lifted, and he pointed out to the signora that her six-month tourist auto permit had expired a few days ago. And that meant Anna Moffo's air-conditioned Lincoln Continental, with built-in bar, had to be impounded by Italian customs. She can get it back any time-by paying a $5,000 fine, a $5,000 import duty and a $10,000 redemption fee. But since the car cost only $9,800 new, the American operatic...
Second Thrust. Providing a powerful second-stage thrust is the island's tourist business. Last year a record 465,000 visitors came to Puerto Rico (v. 118,000 in 1953) and spent $80 million. This year the island is counting on 500,000. To accommodate them all, San Juan hotelmen expanded their lodgings 36% in fiscal 1963-contributing to a building boom that added $325 million to the economy and provided jobs for 50,000 people...
Though the current Communist fiction has it that no visas are required for citizens of Soviet bloc nations, it is not easy for East Germans to get out. Prospective tourists must get permission from their local police, and since individual travel is allowed only when the tourist has a specific invitation, most East Germans travel in officially organized groups, stay in shabby, second-class hotels. This permits Walter Ulbricht's hard-eyed functionaries to ride close herd on them, makes meeting in hotel rooms risky. But the twain meet anyway-on beaches and volleyball courts, in parks and restaurants...
...Rush. And when East German tour guides get nasty, they often find their Bulgarian or Hungarian opposite numbers siding against them. A recent visitor to Varna heard a Bulgarian tourist official chew out an overofficious East German guide. "Leave the guests in peace," he snapped. "You can do what you want in your own country, but this is our country, our beach and these are our guests...