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...stumble aboard the Prudential-Grace liner S.S. Santa Paula as the rain pours down, our loved ones deftly plucking the last packages of cigarettes from our nerveless hands. We are to spend almost two weeks aboard ship. The cruise sponsor, the Institute for New Motivations, has decreed that we will be without tobacco, subject to endless lectures and exhortations by psychologists, defenseless against encounter-group leaders and a hypnotist who is all but guaranteed to free us from our habit. A few fling matches and even treasured lighters into the Hudson. Others are caching cigarettes throughout the ship...
...Santa Paula moves down the Hudson toward the sea, my first faint yearnings for a cigarette coalesce into raving desire. A quick drink only magnifies the pangs. The dinner gong bongs and I meet my tablemates: we loathe each other on sight. One sucks on dummy cigarettes. Another is clearly going to have no trouble quitting: he is too loaded to light a cigarette. Says Hy, a Newark businessman: "We are all compulsive suicides...
Prudential-Grace Lines announced that the 300-passenger Santa Rosa and Santa Paula will sail out of New York harbor on their final Caribbean cruises in January, bringing to an even dozen the number of American luxury ships retired over the past three years. Like most former passenger lines, Prudential-Grace will concentrate on freight. Said President Spyros S. Skouras Jr., who merged his Prudential Lines with the Grace Line fleet last December: "It's the foreign-flag cruise ships-they beat us every time...
...Paula Laurans, also of GWO, said that a Harvard-Radcliffe merger is crucial to change the University...
...PAULA BERNARDI...