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Normally one of the gayest and most cheerful cities in Europe, Naples has been paralyzed by a cholera epidemic that killed 16 people in a month and hospitalized 822 more. As the epidemic itself waned, misfortune has overwhelmed the city. First the lucrative tourist trade dried up. Then the port was all but quarantined. Fishmongers who sold the sewage-contaminated mussels that spread the infection were virtually ostracized; their livelihood was ruined as police frogmen systematically uprooted the mussel beds. Afraid of contagion, Neapolitans, the most gregarious people in Italy, began to avoid one another, literally like the plague...
Without publicizing the fact, the grandly misnamed Société des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers á Monaco (S.B.M.),* the company that runs the casino and most of the other tourist haunts in the tiny principality of Monaco, has removed the ceiling for some of the casino's best-heeled aficionados...
...tourist buses are parked next to the lords' Rolls-Royces. Nearly 500,000 persons visited the casino during the year. Ardent gamblers from Italy make up one-fourth of the clientele, but S.B.M. is trying to draw more affluent tourists from Germany, Spain and Britain. Near the casino, where pigeon-shooting grounds were located until Rainier's princess gave the coup de Grace to the cruel sport, S.B.M. is building a big convention center. Already it has booked 55 conventions for the year, and conventioneers from anthropologists to acupuncturists are droning speeches by day and dropping money...
Officials of the Library Corporation must be horrified that the last president's own name is being used as a rallying point for local opposition to the Library. But last week for the first time, it was publicly recognized that those officials have considered excising the main tourist attraction--the museum--from the rest of the Library complex...
...Federal government doesn't seem especially worried about the Library itself, but rather about its "total impact" on the Cambridge area--that is, the tourist trade it is sure to spawn...