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Shopper's Paradise. Shannon, where the idea of duty-free shops originated in 1952, is close to Schiphol in range and price. It opened in the era of prop planes, when a refueling stop was a must on a transatlantic flight. The jet age brought a temporary drop in Shannon's business, but last year 714,000 passengers passed through, nearly double the number in the peak pre-jet years. The thought of picking up an authentic Aran Islands sweater for $19.50, a genuine Irish tweed sports jacket for $32, or a hand-crocheted christening shawl...
Surprisingly, local products are often the least attractive buys of all because of local taxes-or because shrewd sellers reckon that in-transit passengers will think that a local product is obviously a bargain at any price. A quart of V.S.O.P. cognac, $5 at Ireland's Shannon airport, costs $6.30 at Paris' Orly. In Belgrade, a bottle of "Manastrika" slivovitz is $2.50 at the airport and $1.50 in town. Thousands of passengers eagerly buy watches at Swiss airports, where they are not duty-free and cost about 10% more than at downtown watchmakers. German-made cameras, tape recorders...
...dawn fire charred part of the Marine Classroom on the first floor of Shannon Hall--the ROTC building--yesterday morning. Officials suspect arson...
...April 28, Robert H. Pell, head of Harvard's Army ROTC unit, received a mimeographed letter from "The Anti-War Establishment" which said, "a group of students has become so concerned with the cancer that exists in Shannon Hall that they believe the only recourse is to burn...
...notified the University police, Dean Glimp's office, and the other ROTC units of the threat. Robert Tonis, Chief of University Police, had no comment on the letter. Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of Harvard College, said yesterday, "We did receive an unconfirmed rumor that something would happen to Shannon Hall. We considered it an unconfirmed rumor and did nothing about...