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...GOODS AND SERVICES THAT ECONOMY-CLASS TOURISTS WANT. Among the beneficiaries: European small-car-and bicycle-rental companies, inexpensive restaurants, even greengrocers, and North American sporting-goods and Army-Navy stores. Today's young travelers load up with sleeping bags, shelter halves and Swiss army knives. U.S. knapsack sales so far this year are way up. A SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR THE TOURIST TRADE IN THE CARIBBEAN, HAWAII AND THE U.S. SOUTH. Some resorts in those areas have already been hurting for more than a year, partly because of competition from charter flights and low group fares to Europe. Round...
...nomads travel light: a few old pullovers wadded into a knapsack and a few hundred dollars stuffed into their jeans. Many of the girls are unsupported by anything but their male companions. While some of these not-so-innocents abroad may have well-planned itineraries, most are rather aimlessly following crowds of their countrymen in a quest for good vibrations. They are joining millions of footloose European youths, who are wandering far and wide from Hammerfest to Gibraltar-and points even farther out. Whatever their mother tongue, the youngsters manage to communicate. They speak a sort ot Jeunesperanto, and they...
Such ideas were hardly original. During his Sierra Maestra days, Che carried in his knapsack the Spanish edition of an obscure two-volume Soviet manual called The Clandestine Regional Committee in Action. Written by Aleksei Fyodorov, a World War II Russian guerrilla leader, the book spells out methods for establishing sources of supply as well as discussing such everyday guerrilla problems as how to handle a hard-drinking subordinate, how to check out a supply runner suspected of double-dealing, and how to use propaganda. "You see?" Che would say of Fyodorov's ideas. "It's all come...
...bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed records with his "Mr. Woppit" along for the ride, and Mountain Climber Walter Bonnati got through one low point on his solitary trek up the Matterhorn's north slopes by confessing his "sins" to Zissi, a tiny Teddy in his knapsack. Princess Alexandra of Kent became almost inconsolable when her Teddy got lost on a good-will tour of the Far East. "Most Teddy bears," he concludes, "seem to lead frightfully interesting lives...
...August 20 University police found Aras lying unconscious beneath a rope hanging from a Widener Library window. Two volumes of the Bible were in a knapsack next to him on the ground. Police said Aras appeared to have fallen while climbing down the rope...