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...children are now being taught Tourist Appreciation from the fourth grade on so that we natives may serve the visitor properly...
Nancy Kissinger dutifully saw the sights when she went abroad on diplomatic missions with Henry, and now it is Grace Vance's turn to play tourist. While the Secretary of State conferred with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, his wife put on a blue and white cap reading SHALOM and took a helicopter trip to Masada, the hilltop fortress built by King Herod on the shores of the Dead Sea. Accompanied by Rachel Dayan and several other diplomats' wives, she looked with interest at the baths in the remains of Herod's 2,000-year-old palace. When...
...other hand, Art Leon, owner of The Tourist Trap, a Hollywood Boulevard bar with a parquet dance floor, pool tables and pinball machines, accuses the police of hassling him. "On Friday and Saturday the cops come in here and take out all the women and jack them up against the wall for prostitution," says Leon, who packs a .25-cal. automatic pistol. He claims police sit out front and "tell customers not to come in here." Alcoholic Beverage Control agents have filed an "accusation" against The Tourist Trap, listing 39 offenses, a first step in getting its liquor license withdrawn...
...elders), farmers, fishermen, college graduates and even a smattering of white liberals. Most of them are middle class and in their mid-30s or older. Says Emmett Aluli, a physician and an Ghana leader: "We are the last generation to have known Hawaii the way it was before the tourist invasion threatened to turn this paradise into a giant condominium. This is our last chance to preserve what we have left...
...friend Tarpley Mott, the 17-year-old son of the editor of the Yazoo Daily Herald, told me he hoped the town does not become a tourist spot now. "That's always been one of the good things about it, not having any tourists at all," he said. "I'm a progressive person. I want change within ourselves, not from other people. Look what happened to Florida." One day in Stubb's as we ate Yazoo River catfish, Tarpley complained: "I can't find any of my friends today. Nobody's where they ought...