Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last 20 years. When I was assigned to G-2 in 1941, I was asked to take charge of a new section that had been organized to cover everything from Afghanistan right through southern Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. The materials available to me consisted of a tourist handbook on India and Ceylon, a 1924 military attache's report from London on the Indian army, and a drawer full of clippings from the New York Times gathered since World War I. That was literally the resources of G-2 on that vast part of the world...
...know that the islands will never support heavy industry. Says Sir Stafford Sands, 50, Minister of Finance and Tourism: "We're best off selling the product we have-the world's best climate plus easy accessibility to the world's biggest travel population." Drawing 546,000 tourists last year, the Bahamas doubled Bermuda's tourist intake, outdrew Jamaica 3 to 2, and ranked only behind Puerto Rico in total Caribbean tourist trade. Some Bahamians feel that their archipelago will soon outstrip Puerto Rico, and Sands predicts a 1,000,000-tourist year...
...instance, the author's aim is to reveal inner darkness, his characters traditionally head for Africa (Conrad, Gide, Paul Bowles). If, on the other hand, the blossoming of a long-repressed joie de vivre is the theme, then sunny Italy will unlock the passion in the tourist's heart (Goethe, Mann, E. M. Forster). But whoever would have thought of th Soviet Union as an emotional catalyst? Well, nobody, until British Satirist Anthony Burgess came along...
Then, taking a new tack, Smith complained that while the bill guarantees against discrimination on grounds of race, it does not forbid discrimination on grounds of sex. Celler answered with the old saw about the French tourist in New York, who when asked what he thought of the Empire State Building, replied that it reminded him of sex. "Why?" asked his guide. "Everything does," said the Frenchman...
...airlines, which would like to attract more passengers in the offseason, attached one disappointing rider to the agreement: during the ten weeks of summer, when 65% of all U.S. tourist travel to Europe takes place, the economy fare will be cut only...