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...religious and believed in daily prayer, but like his mother, he was a lightfoot Baptist; he looked on dancing, cardplaying and bourbon drinking with a tolerant eye. He wore his provincialism as proudly as he did his loud sports shirts, which, to much of the world, represent the American tourist...
...what, Harry Truman would have asked, is wrong with the American tourist? He never pretended; better than most men, Truman knew himself. He possessed some hard inner kernel of conviction-partly moral, partly intellectual, partly folk wisdom -that was neither proud nor ashamed. It made him secure...
...devoid, for the time being at least, of the problems that are driving businesses out of the Bahamas. The black nationalist government of Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, which recently negotiated an agreement for full independence from Britain next July, is foundering financially, largely because of a severe drop in tourist revenues. Rumors abound that banks and trust operations, which make up the Bahamas' second largest industry, will be forced to bail out the islands by buying long-term government bonds. Pindling has denied any such plans, but investors are worried because of the atmosphere of heightening black-white tensions...
...residents and industries. South Carolina textile mills have added 3,100 workers this year and increased the average work week to 41.8 hours. Mississippi, though still the only state with per capita income below $3,000, is increasing total personal income by more than 11% per year. The tourist and construction surge in Florida, sparked largely by the Walt Disney World amusement park, has sent an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta to the Disney movie Mary Poppins to find a suitable description: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
...detail: deck plans, photographs and descriptions of machinery, interiors of accommodations. A brief, highly literate biography carries the great liner through World War II service as a troop transport (it accidentally rammed and sank a British cruiser in 1942), and into its sad second life as a tourist attraction in Long Beach, Calif. Ideal gift for those nostalgia collectors who have recently been buying artifacts from the Mary and her big sister Elizabeth at Texas prices...