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...meet that demand and to keep up with the rapidly expanding trailer subculture, a new vacation industry is taking shape. The sites are variously called destination resorts, luxury campsites, hotels without rooms. They cater to families owning "recreational vehicles"-trailers, campers, motor coaches-whose number is now increasing by 25% a year. In 1961, 83,500 "rec vees" were sold; last year the number was 740,000. There are now some 6.5 million rec-vee families...
More and more of them are taking the same correspondence courses that cater to the children of diplomats and military personnel in remote foreign posts...
...aiding the cause of repression, ROTC at Harvard would undermine the principle of autonomy on which the University is founded. Harvard exists to serve truth, not the particular immediate interests of the military. Bok should reexamine his own conception of a University if he things it exists to cater to the interests of the powerful and mighty in America...
...gives tongue to their malice, Mrs. Luce clearly sees them as parasites who neither toil nor spin, except for their cunning webs of mischief. Like a social anthropologist, she follows these felines to their lairs-exercise parlors, hairdresser sessions, nightclub powder rooms. In an all-female play, these scenes cater to the U.S. male's assumption that women are as much a conspiracy as a sex, and Mrs. Luce reveals that the conspiracy is centered on him-how to get a man and how to hold...
...Every important Japanese city from Kagoshima to Kushiro has its own throbbing neon-lit district of pubs, clubs and geisha houses that cater to the expense-account set. On Tokyo's Ginza alone, well-oiled businessmen drop some $500 million yearly at more than 1,000 bars and restaurants. Prices effectively screen out patrons who have only their own money to spend: dinner for two at Osaka's Yamato-ya restaurant costs about $230, while four Scotch-and-waters at a select Tokyo bar can run to $120, including a tray of hors d'oeuvres and fruit...