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...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 for $12 was enough to make many jet-borne travelers reroute their itinerary and stop briefly at Shannon. Sales have been growing by 20% annually, to last year's $6,000,000. Most of Shannon's shoppers are American tourists...
Fidelman is a failed painter who has bummed enough money from a married sister for a year in Italy. Intending to make a cosmopolite and a critic of himself in his middle age, the boy from The Bronx has bought a tweed suit and a pigskin briefcase and begun a book on Giotto...
Boston Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand (Loyola University '63) was turned away from the occupied Harvard administration building and told that only Harvard men were welcome. Hillenbrand did not argue. He merely changed his tie and suit for a tweed sports coat, a blue sweater and slacks - what he calls his "graduate school uniform" - and walked back inside the building as though he belonged. He stayed until midnight, went home to begin his file before returning to watch the police move...
...first time in my life I have felt the pride the pride of an alumnus, proud that a few Harvard students finally had the courage to show their fellows that the tweed of Harvard administrators and history professors, the blues of racist city police, the khaki fatigues of American soldiers in Vietnam, and the green eye-shades of New York Times editors, are all but the various uniforms of flunkies for the same man (or has it become an uncontrollable machine?). I sang "With the Crimson in Triumph Flashing" on the exercise yard today. James R. Wessner #17837 Federal Youth...
...schoolmarm in tweed skirts and sensible shoes? That hardly sounds like Britain's Vanessa Redgrave, protester for all reasons. Still, she is starting a school for children in England. "We've got all kinds of ideas of what the school should be" says Vanessa, "but I think we should learn from the children themselves." One course is already set: Swimming. "The wonderful thing about swimming is that it's the only natural environment in which a child can be totally independent from an adult; water is a natural element." After all, says the new pedagogue, "a child...