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Crowds? On Ibiza, the neighbors of Hughes-Hoax Author Clifford Irving can blame him for making the island a household name; it has become so crowded that some travelers sleep in cars or on the roadsides. On the Greek island of Ios, police no longer allow the young knapsack-setters who arrive by the boatload every summer to camp on the beaches. Reason: there were so many kids and so few sanitary facilities that officials feared an outbreak of disease...
...Roof, though her prey is her husband, whom she is trying to lure away from alcohol and his homosexual leanings. An evil temptress is rich, aging Flora Goforth in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, who tries to corrupt and seduce a young wanderer with a knapsack who may possibly be Christ...
Street Talk. Van Peebles is a cool dude, casting a cynical eye on the world from behind his silver shades. He has not had a permanent address in ten years, hauling his belongings around in a battered knapsack. He is handsome in a wiry, wary way. He gestures with a skinny cigar, spilling out a blend of street talk and businessmen's lingo. But for all his jive and his expatriate status, he insists that he is deadly serious about his black identity. His phrases are familiar: "Of all the ways we've been exploited...
...TIME has given its readers a ste reotyped look at "knapsack nomads" [July 19]. Some of us choose one country in which to spend our vacation with the hope of learning some of the language and meeting some of the local people. We did not come to Europe to meet Amer icans or to commit cultural genocide, as so many American military personnel and tourists do. JOHN B. WILLIAMS III Copenhagen...
...keep the sleeping-bag and knapsack-carrying youths coming. What better way to dispel the odious myth of "the rich American...