Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being kicked by an unruly child on the other side, one might think I would never want to fly again. But give me a few weeks to adjust my wobbly knees and popping ears to terrestrial life, and I'll be winging my way to visit a friend in Boston. I need my head examined...
...since July. Against gold, which is being feverishly traded in major markets, the dollar has slumped about 12% in the same period. The result has been to make the U.S. a bargain hunter's paradise for even middle-class foreigners. More than 20 million foreign tourists are expected to visit the U.S. this year, up at least 8% from last year...
...better to visit America, some foreigners say, than to live here. Electrical Engineer Makoto Takayasu, 35, expected to go back to Japan with some savings after working on a research grant at Purdue University. But the decline of the dollar has just about wiped out what he set aside. "My wife is encouraging me to spend every dollar we have before we return to Japan," he laments. "She's not far from right. The dollar is not worth anything any more...
First, though, Carter had to pay a visit to Plains. Returning to his home town in Georgia is no longer pure pleasure for the President. Local merchants, worried about a drop-off in the number of tourists who thronged the town a year ago, expect him to stroll the streets and attract crowds during his well-publicized trips home. So the President grinned his way along jammed sidewalks for the mandatory stops at various local stores. Jimmy also had to pay a visit to Cousin Hugh Carter, whose tattletale book about the family has dismayed several of its members...
...Tison's family rallied round. On July 30, he was visited by his son Ricky, 18, and the two chatted in a fenced picnic area at the prison. At the same time, two of Tison's other sons, Raymond, 19, and Donald, 20, decided to visit their father. They carried a box of food into the prison. Checking in at the lobby, one of them pulled a sawed-off shotgun out of the box and aimed it at a guard. Soon the three sons were escorting their father out of prison. With them went Convicted Murderer Randy Greenawalt...