Word: disneyland
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...nigssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists a year come to yell, some of them at the same time: their goal is to hear the echo of their voices rebound from the mountain amphitheater. As one distraught Swiss expert puts it, "We are making this place the Disneyland of Europe...
...Dallas, and then embarks on the final campaign of his 20-year political career, it should again become clear just how deeply he relishes the public flash, the roar of the crowd, the visceral approbation. After the official Labor Day kickoff deep in Reagan's home territory, near Disneyland in ultraconservative Anaheim, Calif., he will be on the road three days a week at first, more later...
...weight lifters, who won more medals (eight) than any other country in the house. "I have participated in many competitions, and this is the warmest I've seen," said Rumanian Weight-Lifting Coach Stefan Achim. For their part, Rumanians were just as friendly. Some roamed with relish through Disneyland and Hollywood's movie studios. Others accepted invitations to private homes in Los Angeles, where they relaxed around the pool and chatted with neighbors who dropped by to greet them...
...talk about smog and heat and traffic scared a lot of people away," said Charles O'Connell, the Olympic traffic-operations chief in Los Angeles. "There was a feeling of 'let's not come to L.A. this year.' " So traffic is also thinner at movies, restaurants and Disneyland's Space Mountain, as the out-of-towners have not kept pace with the let's-get-out-of-towners, rendering hotels uncrowded and compelling rent-a-car companies, among other profiteers, to restore normal rates. Since fully 70% of those attending the Games are estimated to be local, this almost qualifies...
...squares, vermilion triangles and aqua stars piled chockablock on orange scaffolds beside pink-and-black-striped cardboard columns. Professor Stanley Weingart of the U.S.C. business school says, "I keep waiting for Dumbo the elephant to fly out." It does put one in mind of an amusement park. Although not Disneyland so much as Coney Island...