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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From makeshift booths where travelers could pick up whisky or cigarettes, duty-free shops at international airports have blossomed within a few years into bazaars of the jet age. Bargain-hunting is now one of the expected rewards of a flight abroad, and as the travel season begins in earnest with the coming of June, it will be the source of rich business for airport authorities, who usually lease the shops to private entrepreneurs. The goods that they offer are as varied as diamonds at Amsterdam's Schiphol, fur hats ($10 to $75) at Moscow's Sheremetyevo...
...service liquor and tobacco store, where passengers can pick and choose just as they do in a neighborhood supermarket. Another innovation is a tax-free automobile showroom with a choice of 21 models, including a British Ford Cortina for $1,500, about 23% less than the London price tag. Within half an hour of arrival, a traveler can drive away in his new car, complete with documents and license plate. In the Schiphol antique shop, 21 Dutch dealers have joined to offer a large selection of their wares, and will cut 12% or more on items priced over...
...combo in New York City, he recorded a version of Body and Soul for RCA Victor's Bluebird label-one of the authentic masterpieces of jazz-a flight of improvised melody as carefully organized as variations on a fugue, a gravely sweet meditation on the hidden melodies within a commonplace tune...
...last justification of Harvard's stinginess with its endowment funds is that most of these funds are restricted by the terms of the original bequest to specific faculties and within the faculties to specific projects...
Under present circumstances it is impossible to establish guidelines to distinguish acceptable from unacceptable political conduct within the university in a way that will appear just and equitable to the interested parties. The significant dividing line is not between faculty and students. Instead, the situation is one where those opposed to the war, and now even more opposed to those aspects of American society they hold responsible for the war, feel a moral compulsion to act in ways that others regard as merely criminal. Faculty and students fall on both sides of this moral and political dividing line, though...