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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mills is a peculiar blend of old and new, East and West. Founded in 1852 as a seminary-refuge for wealthy girls fleeing the crude gold-mining camp atmosphere of San Francisco, it later thrived on offering an exclusive Vassar-style education without the need for transcontinental travel. Today, Mills accents music, art, dance and drama, boasts some fine Victorian architecture, lets its girls enforce their own honor code in exams and conduct, and observes such quaint traditions as the seniors' tearful last tour of the campus by lantern light, pausing at sites they want to remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: A Search for Distinction | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...wins, Cornell has shown a better ground game, a better passing attack, and a defense that's inexperienced but as effective as the Crimson's. And possibly more significant, the Ithacans are playing on their home field before a raucously partisan home crowd against a foe that doesn't travel well in its first away game of the year. John Yovicsin has never tasted victory in four appearances at Schoellkopf Field...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Crimson Eleven to Meet Cornell In Decisive Ivy Struggle Today | 10/21/1967 | See Source »

After questioning some tourists in 1966, the U.S. Travel Service, an agency of the Commerce Department, found that "the U.S.A. is viewed less in terms of a vacation land than as a civilization to be observed and studied." The U.S.T.S. has therefore geared its tourist program to a personalized approach, offering the foreign tourists such things as visits with American families and advice about local customs. Sample: "If you would like your shoes shined, stop by the barbershop or phone Valet Service. Do not leave them outside your hotel-room door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Discovering America | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

Plugging Fun City. Business and cities have also joined the promotion campaign, putting the stress on low-cost travel. Continental Trailways and Greyhound advertise 99 days of unlimited travel for only $99, while 14 airlines sell touring fares to attract foreigners. TWA and Pan Am are forever squiring travel editors across the oceans, and a recent group was wined, dined and toured through Chicago. Most wrote glowing reports for their home papers. Meanwhile, New York City, through which flows 80% of the nation's foreign visitors, sent Summer Festival Queen Nancy Davison overseas for six weeks with the express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Discovering America | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...happy about the increased number of foreign tourists, particularly the U.S. Government. The other side of the coin is not viewed with such pleasure in Washington. More and more U.S. vacationers have been fleeing the country and taking their dollars to foreign lands. As a result the U.S. travel deficit, which increased by $31 million in 1966 to $1.64 billion, is expected this year to hit $1.8 billion or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Discovering America | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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