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...first piece of good advice you will get from "veterans" is that no one needs a guidebook--it's much more fun to find your own little restaurants, to discover your own delightful little hostels, to drift where the wind blows you. But such spontaneity leaves many a bit insecure, and the prospect of eating-what-the-people-eat may reinforce the queasiness. So give in. Buy a guidebook...
...Weston chanted as indefatigably as blackbirds on a spring morn. Bands and discotheques rocked away with Elizabethan abandon. And many young couples were seen to be popping below quite early, leading one ancient mariner to muse that the cruise might be fruitful beyond Cunard's calculations. The great drift-in's only real disaster, said New Bedford, Mass., Travel Agent Bob Penler, occurred "when...
...accept Barrington Moore's analysis, and to act on it in ways that he, in company with Hughes and the majority of Harvard's other faculty members, would consider misguided or reprehensible. But for the moment, interests in civil rights and community organizing just led many Tocsin people to drift into the other leftist groups that were starting to surface: the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee (SNCC), for instance, or the new Students for a Democratic Society, which gradually absorbed most of Tocsin's members and finally, in 1964, its small treasury as well. That was just over...
...case for greater autonomy is gaining surprising strength. It is built upon both a Scottish sense of uniqueness and a fear that if affairs are left to drift, Scotland will be in deep trouble. Fishermen worry that with Britain's membership in the Common Market, they will be powerless to prevent incursions from European fleets. Residents of towns touched by the offshore oil boom are anxious about the soaring inflation brought on by, among other things, sudden prosperity, population growth and shortages of housing and services...
There may not be many; fewer than 100 of the seminary's 650 prestrike students are expected to drift back. Nearly 400 of the rest signed up last week for a "Concordia Seminary in Exile" that began holding classes at St. Louis University (a Jesuit school) and the United Church of Christ's Eden Theological Seminary. Both host schools will certify the rebel seminarians' degrees, as will Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology, the largest seminary of a sister denomination, the more liberal Lutheran Church in America...