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...accommodate the sophisticated, independent-minded traveler, Thomas Cook Inc.-which originated the package tour in the 19th century-trains all its counselors to interview customers about their special hobbies and interests. Says Rod Fensom, Cook's Chicago-based field marketing manager: "Americans are more involved with self-enrichment travel tailored to their own individual tastes. There is a resurgence of charter travel this year to single destinations. Gone are the days of the 'If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium' tourist...
...likely to increase the cost of those imports in the U.S. and make American goods more competitive. In addition, he lowered quotas for steel-bar imports from 40,053 tons to 27,000 tons for the first year of the limit. Other, less severe quotas were imposed for rod and tool steel...
...gonzo, fuzzed-out Fender-bending by Keith Streng, and one forgets that almost 20 years separate the "Tones from the Barbarians, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and? and the Mysterians--from which they claim their musical heritage. Thus, some cry, the Fleshtones aren't revolutionary--legated the Kinks and Rod Stewart to embarrassing obsolescence and has embraced every now British import as a heaven-sent message...
...Rod Chandler, U.S. Representative Eighth District, Washington Washington...
...They were oppressively poetic, gushily confessional. They were sweet and intimate and profound and occasionally metaphysical, like a Hallmark card. They were illuminated by moonbeams of Kahlil Gibran ("Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone") and drenched with fragrances of Rod McKuen. At one wedding of the time, the bridegroom rhapsodized: "It is therefore our glorious and divine purpose to fly mountains, to sow petalscent. . . to glorify glory, to love with love." His bride answered: "We hereby commit ourselves to a serenity more flamboyant and more foolish than a petalfall of Magnolia...