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Harvard received an invitation on December 1 to attend the regatta as a guest of the Egyptian Government Tourist Office. Parker said that he discussed the invitation with his crew and they decided to go. "The guys are pretty excited about going," he said...
...about one-third of the present national output. At six other points along the same stretch of Mediterranean coastline, government-built resort towns are partially complete. Over the past year they have attracted 600,000 visitors to accommodations ranging from trailer parks to deluxe hotels, and by 1980 the tourist load is expected to triple, equaling that of the "old" Riviera east of Marseille...
...waiter at Rome's suburban restaurant I Fontanone says that he hopes he will not become a tourist attraction. But Raffaele Minichiello, the U.S. Marine who skyjacked a TWA jet 6,900 miles from California to Italy two years ago, has been getting something of a play in the Italian press with his first job since his release from jail in April. The great thing about the job is being always with people, says Mini, as the papers call him. "I'm very shy, and this is good...
Exaggerated Fears. That effort is a practical response to the fact that Ireland's economic growth has shown some signs of slowing down. Last year the number of tourists dropped 6% from 1969. Says Eamonn Keane, marketing director of the Irish Tourist Board: "The troubles in Northern Ireland have frightened a lot of people." They may also have discouraged some new investment in the Republic. In fact, the fears of tourists and investors are exaggerated: life in the South is still stable, and foreigners are still cosseted. Except for the North, Ireland is a much safer place to live...
...Dulles International Airport, it was simply a routine trip to London. But for Physicist Joseph C. Hafele and his companion, Astronomer Richard Keating, it was the beginning of a journey into the most esoteric realms of modern science. Occupying four seats in the big 747's tourist compartment-two for themselves and two for their scientific gear-they were setting off on an extraordinary round-the-world odyssey: an expedition to test Albert Einstein's controversial "clock paradox," which, stated simply, implies that time passes more slowly for a rapidly moving object than for an object at rest...