Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like this," says Bill Ivey, 32, who runs the store. Ivey grew up behind the trading post, where his father was the storekeeper. At the time, he recalls, Lajitas had an official population of just seven, four of whom were Iveys. Now a Houston company has developed a clapboard tourist town around an old cavalry post nearby, and the population of Lajitas is about 100. "Back then, all my friends lived across the river," says Ivey, a bachelor, who lives behind the shop. "Now I've got ^ a few over here as well." He has turned his kitchen into...
Outside is one of the post's main tourist attractions: Clay Henry, a beer- drinking goat whose pen abuts the shaded porch. A boozer of 14 years' standing, Clay Henry picks up an opened can or bottle in his mouth and downs the contents in seconds. "He has drunk as much as 24 cans in a single day," says Linda Garcia, a clerk at the post. CLAY HENRY FOR MAYOR, reads a sign on the fridge that holds the beer...
...free ticket (20,000 miles for a coach seat, vs. the current 35,000). But those tickets will allow travel only during certain times and within the mainland U.S. The airline will sharply increase the number of miles needed to fly at peak times to more desirable tourist destinations (a whopping 240,000 for two first-class seats to Hawaii, vs. the current...
Some American companies have found ways around the currency problem. PepsiCo, which plans to build two Pizza Hut shops in Moscow later this year, will accept rubles at one outlet and collect foreign currencies at another one, in a tourist neighborhood. Occidental, on the other hand, will export 25% of the plastics produced in its Soviet factories for sale in Western Europe and other markets...
Once upon a time, in a popular tourist destination called the Magic Kingdom, there lived some very prosperous characters. They were happy all the time (except for Grumpy, but it was his job to be that way). They produced souvenirs, cartoons and movies that were the delight of families around the world. But one day a great disenchantment fell over the kingdom, for the magic no longer worked. Tinker Bell's pixie dust had lost its twinkle. A teenage boy was even heard to say, "I wouldn't be caught dead going to one of their movies." The whole kingdom...