Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Canada's Terry Fox, for his run across Canada on one healthy leg before being stricken a second time with cancer...
...popular Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park) and profit ($100,000 a year from its motel, café, service station and general store). As a result, Navajo has six new owners: Don and Rita Schwinghamer of Phoenix, Don's cousin Frank Schwinghamer and his wife Ann, from Canada, and their close friends Len and Betty Siebert of Bellevue, Wash...
...land that is being so hotly contested still remains, much of it, a primeval wilderness of snowy, pine-covered mountains and silent deserts. In an area that stretches 1,260 miles from Canada to Mexico and almost 1 ,000 miles from east to west, there are still only 10 million people, hardly more than live in New York City and its immediate environs. Venture ten minutes out side smoggy, clogged Phoenix and you suddenly enter an eerie desert that sweeps on for hundreds of miles. Drive north along Highway 13 in Colorado, away from the bustle and lights...
...average of 15% for the past 15 years, the number of visitors so far in 1980 is off 1.5%. And new figures indicate that the downturn is gathering force. In October, 8.4% fewer tourists visited Hawaii than in the same month last year. The number from the U.S. and Canada slumped 10.8%, while that from Asia was up a small 1.2%. Group travel, which used to constitute about half of all tourism, this year is 19.9% below the level...
...bookstore. Self-help manuals are proliferating, usually in paperback, and cover every subject from small-claims court to homosexual rights. Nolo, with 20 titles in print, expects to gross $750,000 this year, up $500,000 from 1978. An estimated 50 other publishers throng the field, ranging from giant, Canada-based International Self-Counsel Press (100 titles for a $1 million annual gross) to underground-style newsletters with circulations of less than a thousand. There is scant mystery about the forces underlying this boom. "People just don't know what their rights are," says American Bar Association Spokesman Richard...