Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hashish Trail. From this promise, possibly more exciting-and more dangerous-than any adventure offered by travel agents, was born the cult of hippiedom. Its disciples, who have little use for definitions, are mostly young and generally thoughtful Americans who are unable to reconcile themselves to the stated values and implicit contradictions of contemporary Western society, and have become internal emigres, seeking individual liberation through means as various as drug use, total withdrawal from the economy and the quest for individual identity...
...over the Queen's visit were the 6,000,000 French-speaking Canadians, some of whom want to break off the ties to Britain and advocate formation of an independent republic. Diplomatically, Elizabeth and Philip did not set foot in Quebec during their six-day visit. Rather than travel through largely French-speaking Montreal, their plans called for them to reach the Expo 67 islands by sailing down the St. Lawrence River in their royal yacht...
...that is obviously not the only, or even the main reason for record enrollments year after year. For those who are under no pressure to earn money, summer school is one alternative among several, like a job, or travel, or loafing (which, statistics show, almost non one does--or at least not without listing it under "travel.") It keeps you away from home but lets you live in a sociable place where the friends--and the action--are familiar. Taking a course or two makes the summer respectable, regardless of whatever else keeps you in Cambridge...
Because fragile sugar cones travel badly, Nathan and Joseph built a string of bakeries across the country. The family followed the bakeries and ran them as individual fiefdoms. They still are to some extent, although control has increasingly become centralized. Now, explains Arthur Shapiro, "everybody picks the thing he thinks he's best at." The family's favorite example is Sam Shapiro, son of Nathan, who tired of running bakeries and in 1957 started the plastics division...
...which, after all, is not an end but a means. Only by growth can the world's economies produce the chemicals and machines to alleviate hunger, the materials to provide adequate housing for all, and the means by which people can earn more to spend on leisure, culture, travel, medicine-and books by economists...