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Touring in Europe these days also leaves more to individual choice. One boon for free spirits is the hotel voucher plan, available throughout Scandinavia and in Switzerland, by which travelers can choose in advance from hundreds of participating inns and hotels; a tourist is thus free to arrive with only 24 hours' prior notification. One way of escaping the formalities of hotel living is to stay at a farm or a country manor. Private agencies and government tourist commissions make such accommodations available at low prices. Many European countries offer prix fixe tourist meals that are obtainable at hundreds...
...stricter regulation of toxic chemicals. The implicit, if not the stated, aim of the Right to Know legislation is not knowledge for knowledge's sake, but the power to mandate a safe work environment. Simply knowing that the chemicals he handles each day are carcinogens is no great boon to a worker who cannot afford to leave his job. Employers are justified in their fears that the new law would prompt rigorous, and yes, costly safeguards in the future...
...first sheriff of Independence, Mo., the first white man to lead a party to the brink of the Yosemite Valley and the first to lead a wagon train into California, in 1843. Frontiersman Joseph Walker, says Biographer Bil Gilbert, "should have become a gaudy boon to the toy and TV industries" like his contemporary, Kit Carson. The reason he did not: Walker's stubborn refusal to embroider his achievements for legend-hungry Eastern journalists. So they "moved on to men and events that could be conventionally romanticized...
...allow the balance of power to tilt in Washington's favor. But he sounded more conciliatory than on some previous occasions. "If it became possible to reduce the level of armaments and military spending on both sides," he said, and embark on disarmament, "this would be a great boon for all countries...
...stint when it comes to medical care for their pets, spending about $800 million annually. Says Dr. Joan Arnoldi, president of the American Association of Feline Practitioners: "There is a need for this product. It is an excellent idea for feline fanciers of all sorts and a special boon to breeders, who often have to contend with very expensive outbreaks of the disease...