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...traitors at worst. A notable exception is Poland. The 19-month-old regime of Edward Gierek has actively encouraged friendly ties between "Polonia," as the Polish Diaspora is known, and the Polish People's Republic. That campaign is being intensified this summer as Poland faces a special tourist boom: emigres and their descendants returning to the old country as visitors...
...chief instrument of Warsaw's policy of being friendly to Poles abroad is the Society for Liaison with Polonia, which sponsors an expanding number of cultural and educational exchanges, historical celebrations, tourist attractions and retirement plans. In effect, the Polonia Society's programs are a giant, state-run public relations venture, which the Polish government uses to make its peace with the approximately 1,500,000 native-born Poles living in other countries-many of whom fled when the Communists gained power after World War II-and the millions more of Polish descent whose parents and grandparents were...
...gradually lost its strategic value and nobody ever found much civilian use for it. After the disastrous flood of 1966, it became a storehouse for damaged books from Florence's national library. But a problem remained: how to integrate this masterpiece of obsolete military building with the tourist life of the city below? The answer was to turn it into an exhibition center. The fortress's ancient terraces, overlooking Florence to the north and the tranquil, cypress-dotted hills behind San Miniato to the south, were potentially a superb site for the open-air installation of large-scale...
...compared with the regular tourist-class minimum fare of $282, a student aged 16 to 24 can buy one-way passage to or from a dozen European ports. The line's four floating palazzi stop at some out-of-the-way places, including Tenerife, Palermo, Palma de Majorca and Algeciras, as well as at Lisbon, Cannes, Naples and Genoa. Student-fare travelers will enjoy the same accommodations (two, three or four to a cabin) as regular tourist-class passengers. They will also have the same amenities: swimming pool, 2 a.m. pizza parties and three other meals a day, with...
...airlines, of course, have been packing them in with student fares, which come to about $100 to $125 each way. The seaborne-student fare is actually lower, considering that the ship tourist gets room and board for a voyage of up to eleven days. The government-owned Italian Line has little to lose from this bargain-price experiment because the 500 tourist-class cabins in its four ships-the Michelangelo, Raffaello, Leonardo da Vinci and Cristoforo Colombo-have been sailing at only 20% occupancy. Italian Line officials figure that they may not make money on the students-food alone will...