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...Hotel rooms in most price categories are very tight in Athens, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Geneva, Helsinki, London, Moscow, Prague, Salzburg, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw and Zurich. In almost every other top city, they are just plain tight. Prices have risen about 10% since last year. A double room with bath in a good hotel ranges from a low of $7 in Lisbon and $10 in Munich to a top of $48 in Rome, $50 in London and $65 in Paris. A WINDFALL FOR VENDORS OF THE GOODS AND SERVICES THAT ECONOMY-CLASS TOURISTS WANT. Among the beneficiaries: European small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Exodus 1971: New Bargains in the Sky | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...within Europe are offered by the British Student Travel Center and other official youth organizations to full-time high school and college students who have convincing identification. Sample one-way prices: London to Paris $13.20, London to Leningrad $48. Belgian railroads give 50% reductions to students. The municipal steam baths of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo charge only $1 or less for steam bath and swim. Troubled travelers can get free psychiatric counseling in Amsterdam, free beds through Infor Jeunes (a voluntary youth service organization) in Brussels and easy tolerance of hash smoking (but not selling) in most northern European countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rites of Passage: The Knapsack Nomads | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...Poverty is an odious good: it is a stimulant to business," said the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. So much for the "novel theory" that "Poverty May Be Good for You" [June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1971 | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

Other composers, for Munves, do not include serialists or the majority of post-Bartok contemporaries, who he feels have no mass-market appeal. "I simply cannot go on taking a bath for those guys," he says. "Only four or five of them are writing for the people. Like Lenny Bernstein. I think West Side Story is one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century because it combines the classics with the vernacular." Munves particularly mourns the disappearance of good old-fashioned melody. When he says, "It all started with that nogoodnik Schoenberg," he is having a laugh, but only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Peddler | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...summer after that ominous beginning, I worked with a bunch of pretty healthy young Canadian kids, went to California, and returned, my feelings about man-kind altogether revived. Within one week of my arrival back in Cambridge, I went innocently to take a midnight bath in the third floor bathroom of Barnard Hall. There before me I found an absolutely unknown naked man masturbating in the tub. Go ahead and laugh, if you like. Of course there's something a bit comical about the scenario, shades of Portnoy or of Bruce Jay Friedman. Even more comical to remember that some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String Walking The Streets | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

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