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...have a gold-lined pocket to visit the U.S. So far, KLM has done most of the dragon slaying. Its agents are pushing a clever little booklet called Een Handige Budget-Baedeker. To potential travelers the Budget-Baedeker gives helpful tips on where to find bargains in New York-Woolworth's, Klein's on Union Square, Masters discount house, and Ohrbach's ("copies of haute couture"}-and how to get by adequately on $12 to $13 a day. It suggests that tourists eat as Americans do-at drugstores, Howard Johnson's ("excellent soup of mussels...
Pressman said that the Boston demonstration was only one of at least 12 being staged in major cities across the country. The Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee in Atlanta, Ga., had asked the Boston EPIC group, which last year led a boycott against the Woolworth chain, to join in the "second stage" of protesting against segregation practices...
...this picketing is handled as well as last year's Woolworth demonstrations, it deserves generous support. Such non-violent, orderly demonstrations are a legitimate and--as the Woolworth successes show--useful weapon in the fight to extend social equality...
Last year they went boom. Fueled by the spark of Southern Negro sit-in strikers, Northern students picketed Woolworth stores and "marched" on Washington. Others denounced everything from dull teaching and nuclear testing to compulsory R.O.T.C. and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Last fall both presidential candidates drew enormous crowds of students. For ex-gophers, the trend is "involvementism," and the most startling part of it is a sharp turn to the political right. As Editor Peter Stuart of the Michigan Daily puts it: "The signs point to a revival of interest in individualism and decentralization of power-principles...
...Keys signed on as an oiler aboard the President Wilson, bound for China, and quickly dispensed with nutritional niceties. "The diet was mainly alcohol," he says. "I don't remember eating anything." Back again at Cal, Keys switched to economics, graduated in two years, went to work for Woolworth, quit in boredom after eight months and returned to the university...