Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RECENT one week tour in Israel, provided gratis by the Ministry of Tourism, gave me a chance to talk to some Israelis about the problems they face. The Ministry's tour, geared primarily for travel agents to promote tourism hit all the famous tourist spots, put us up in fancy hotels and fed us extremely well. Yet we were given little time to explore...
Authors, as a class, have become a kind of tourist attraction in Key West, Fla., in tire same general category as sport fish and gay discos, sunsets and hibiscus. Ernest Hemingway, who wrote nearly half his life's work here between 1928 and 1938, was the first big draw, and he is still the dominant local legend. As a resident, Novelist David Kaufelt (Six Months with an Older Woman) is fond of explaining, "Hemingway is our first literary ghost, the big marlin in the sea. Tennessee Williams is now our second ghost, the bougainvillaea twining secretly into our hearts...
...visitor thinks of the city as a tottery invalid, preserved by the skin of the teeth from the ravages of tide, effluent, mass sightseeing and economic slump. One's awe at Piazza San Marco is mingled with pity and even impatience, and the child in the tourist impertinently wonders how soon the whole peeling confection, gold, Istrian stone, gelati and all, will be swallowed at last in the lagoon...
...Orange Bowl's 50th renewal, Miami, the game's original loser, was a sentimental but not a financial favorite. Committeemen estimate that $10 million could be lost in tourist trade. So no one paved the way for Miami (10-1), which had a hard road after losing its opener to Florida, 28-3. The Hurricanes are coached by Howard Schnellenberger, a former pro assistant of Don Shula's and head coach for the Baltimore Colts. Having immediately lost his star quarterback this year to injury, Schnellenberger had to choose quickly from three freshmen and selected Bernie Kosar...
...picturesque island, roughly the acreage of Detroit, may fade as Grenada tries to rebuild its shattered political system and economy. It will not be easy to fashion a new government that islanders, badly split in political ideology, can trust, or to revive an economy hurt by falling crop and tourist income. In addition, the country still faces the task of repairing its rocky roads as well as its war-damaged power facilities and water systems...