Word: visitant
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...desirable. He profoundly disagrees with Johnson's policy of attempting to finance the Viet Nam war and domestic social reforms simultaneously, insists that spending will have to be reduced somewhere. "If I asked the American taxpayer to pull in his belt," Mills said after the. Rusk-Fowler visit, "I would expect the Government to do the same thing." Since the Johnson Administration feels that it cannot sweat anything out of the war budget, the effect of Mills's position has been to bring the Great Society to a sudden, painful pause. Moreover, Mills is being unduly immodest when...
Students and teachers who already swear by Arthur Frommer's penny-pinching guidebook Europe on $5 a Day will escape most of the taxes, as will tourists who visit kinfolk in the old country. Though details have not yet been worked out completely, the tax for average daily expenditures above $10 may come to a flat 20%, or it may go as high as 40% for everything over...
...proposed taxes are hardly likely to clip the jet set's wings. "I don't want to be the only one staying in America," says Marylou Whitney, wife of Racehorse Owner C. V. Whitney, who likes to visit Europe in the fall. Nor are notable numbers of tourists switching from the Alps to the Tetons, or from the music festival in Salzburg to Hemisfair in San Antonio. "We can't put our hands on a single cancellation," says Boston Travel Agent Bruce A. Rogal. Moreover, the State Department reports a 20% increase in passport applications...
...sales come-on. In Detroit, J. L. Hudson has a staff of 58 full-time decorators; Rich's in Atlanta employs 30. Manhattan's Bloomingdale's advised 1,500 customers last year, more than twice the number five years ago. The store's designers visit the homes to be decorated, draw up floor plans and supply all the furnishings, even if some of them must be obtained elsewhere. To discourage freeloaders from taking advantage of the advice and then buying everything from another source, some stores charge an initial $50 consultation fee, which is credited against...
Leahy said that he was "very encouraged" by a visit in January by a three-man inter-agency committee from the Bureau of the Budget. The committee, he said, visited 21 universities across the nation in an attempt to guage the general feeling toward effort-reporting among the nation's scientists...