Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TOBACCO. Cigarettes, which can be brought back to the U.S. in "reasonable" quantities, are priced lowest at the duty-free shops in Shannon, Johannesburg and Tokyo ($2.40 per carton). Elsewhere they cost 25? to $1 more. Caution: locally manufactured versions of many U.S. brands are sold in parts of Europe and Africa. To some Americans they do not taste the same as their regular smokes. The point of manufacture is printed on each carton...
...many camera stores in every big city, where the selection is much broader and prices almost the same. Sample prices at the airport: Nikkormat 35-mm. FTN with f-1.4 lens, $172. The same camera costs $268 at Amsterdam's Schiphol and $260 at Shannon, but it is still a bargain at either place compared with its $388 retail price...
Europe's most elaborate duty-free shops are at Shannon airport in Ireland and Amsterdam's Schiphol. Visitors to the ould sod-even those in transit-can browse through huge quantities of bulky hand-knit sweaters ($19.75 and up), Connemara blankets ($9.75), Royal Tara china and linen. The same merchandise is taxed up to 17% outside the duty-free area, but occasionally it can be found on sale for less than airport prices. Amsterdam's 25-store operation is a veritable shopping center, offering unset diamonds, a large selection of Dutch silverware, typewriters, electronic calculators and film...
...entering into any new ones. It seemed not unreasonable to ask that Harvard refuse to allow the American military to train its students to murder Indochinese with rifles and cannon and bombs. We won a victory against ROTC. Col. Pell packed up and went back to the Pentagon; Shannon Hall is now a day-care center...
...fare of as little as $180 round trip for groups of ten who buy from $70 to $149 each worth of meals, lodging and sightseeing along with their tickets. Two weeks ago Irish Aer Lingus announced a $500 first-class, 14-to-28-day fare from New York to Shannon, and an unlimited-stay economy fare of $320 in the off season...