Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aboard the P. & O.'s newest luxury liner Canberra, when she sailed from Southampton one afternoon last week, were 1,700 Britons who had paid only $28 each for the 21-day, 12,000-mile voyage to Australia. If the tourist-class passengers were getting a bargain, they represented an even greater boon for population-hungry Australia, which still likes to boast that it is "more purely British than Britain" and has spent $128 million since 1945 to lure close to a million emigrants from the mother country...
...Neighbor Islands for a slice of the tourist trade does not seriously worry Waikiki. There seems to be an endless flood of eager U.S. tourists; each year for the last ten the influx has increased by an average 20%. Only four months ago, the Gallup poll asked a cross section of Americans for their choice of a "dream vacation spot," and Hawaii's name led all the rest by a wide margin...
...foam in Hazelton. Pa., because they bring jobs to areas of chronic unemployment.) The French aluminum producer Pechiney bought control of New York's Howe Sound to gain an exotic-metals business, and the Japanese want Sheraton's Hawaiian hotel because they anticipate a rush of Hawaiian tourist business from affluent Japanese...
When Harrington's real compassion is marred by a style that resembles bad Murray Kempton, he sounds like a self-conscious tourist compiling a diary: today I worked in the Bowery; today I walked through Harlem; today my friends introduced me to some migrant workers. But despite its stylistic lapses, The Other America is written by a man of conscience, feeling, and responsibility. Harrington is trying to come to grips with a problem that many refuse to recognize in any but cold, statistical terms. Ultimately, his personal tone is legitimate and effective...
...profession and gambling the most profitable, what have you got when you combine the two? A gold mine-or so South Korea's ruling junta thought when it dreamed up Walker Hill, a sprawling, 156-acre complex of gaming tables and hot-pillow hotels designed to entice the tourist trade and, not incidentally, the 40,000 U.S. troops stationed in Korea. Out to Manila and Macao went the call for croupiers, and four Americans from Las Vegas moved in to manage the action. But when it opened up ten miles outside Seoul last week, the Monte Carlo...