Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Workers on the nationalized railways struck for seven days, halting 60% of France's trains and stranding hundreds of families home-bound from vacation. The trainmen finally settled for about a two-hour reduction in their 46-hour work week. In Paris, a wildcat strike of subway workers brought...
The strikes, the bitter debates and the political battles that gripped France last week could not alone explain the nation's unusually somber mood. When Georges Pompidou succeeded Charles de Gaulle three months ago, his countrymen were ready for a good long vacation. Except for the jolt of the...
Merchants, including supermarket and drugstore owners, report that cigarette sales in Greenfield are off 30%. Out of the 363 smokers who vowed to quit, 134 claim to have gone the full 30 days without. Another 21 insist that they "almost stopped," limiting themselves to "snitching" an occasional quick drag; 50...
Co-optation is not in itself evil. But the SDS demands can be met, SDS is exerting pressure for concrete achievements. "Stop squeezing the life out of me" is unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and...
Freshmen year isn't easy, but it is, like accepting one of the two Harvards, inevitable. And so, after each holiday, you come back to your dorm. First, the radical from the mid-West says right after Christmas vacation, boy, I can't go back there again. Then after Easter...