Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five years ago the present government initiated an extensive and largely successful campaign to gain international credit by drawing more of the lucrative American tourist trade. The nation's rich folk culture became its greatest asset. European and American markets consumed Haitian primitive art by the shipload, and over a hundred thousand wallet-loose tourists ranged the Haitian hills annually...
...John Kennedy's eyes and I liked what I saw.") Lasky even quotes one book about Kennedy to explain why J.F.K. could never have made a Nixon-type "Checkers" speech: "After midnight once, on a freezing night, Kennedy drove for hours searching for a motel, finally found a tourist home in the town of Athol, got himself ready for bed, when he spotted some dog hairs, got dressed again, piled back into his car, and drove on. He's allergic to dogs...
Great Lies. Carson's trick was to become a tourist guide, and a more freewheeling, freeloading, freethinking travel agent there never was. A further device, for which the reader can be grateful, is to tell great lies about his adventures. There even seems to be some doubt about his real name, which he says is von Falkenhausen, though there are reports to which neither he nor his publisher refer, that it is actually Peter Brooke...
Hippolyte has a friend (in itself an unlikely story) who, we are asked to believe, is a writer of genius by day and an industrious male prostitute by night. Hippolyte and this man of many parts converse. Sample: Hippolyte: "You are a tourist of sensation." Jean-Jacques: "Better than a taxidermist...
...than the traffic is the news that more than 200 of the ancient dwellings in Heidelberg's Altstadt-the "Old Town" where generations of Heidelberg students loved to stroll-are near collapse from neglect and fungus rot. Loath to destroy the Altstadt (and along with it a lucrative tourist trade), Heidelbergers are equally reluctant to try to raise the $50 million needed to restore the buildings...