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...full-time high school and college students who have convincing identification. Sample one-way prices: London to Paris $13.20, London to Leningrad $48. Belgian railroads give 50% reductions to students. The municipal steam baths of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo charge only $1 or less for steam bath and swim. Troubled travelers can get free psychiatric counseling in Amsterdam, free beds through Infor Jeunes (a voluntary youth service organization) in Brussels and easy tolerance of hash smoking (but not selling) in most northern European countries. A government-supported radio station in Amsterdam quotes spot prices for incoming hashish: "Morocco, 2.90 guilders...
Eugene, Ore. June 1971. Meriwether, improbably garbed in gold swim trunks, a white hospital shirt and gold-and-white-striped suspenders, steps into the starting blocks for the 100-yd. dash in the A.A.U. championships. The gun sounds. Meriwether streaks for the tape with great, loping strides and wins, in the astonishing time of 9 sec. flat, a mark equaled by only one other man in history, the U.S.'s John Carlos...
...secret on pictures of the interiors of transport planes that had been remodeled with plush lounges for the comfort of traveling brass. The Navy put a secrecy stamp on a report of attacks by sharks on seamen, even though they took place in New York Harbor (where few people swim any more) in 1916. When one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote a note to the others suggesting less top-secret classification of papers, his note was stamped top secret. Even in the Defense Department, however, there are limits. After someone placed a secret marking on a few newspaper...
...dissenting opinion, Justice Byron White wrote that he had "little doubt" that the closings were an official "pronouncement that Negroes are somehow unfit to swim with whites." Black felt it necessary to warn from the bench that the majority view should not be taken as encouragement for the closing of public schools to evade integration-a tactic long since outlawed. But distinguishing between pools and schools sidesteps the point that perhaps no distinction should be made...
...used to swim every day, she used to say no to the hash pipe for she claimed to "get high on life," she used to let people cry on her shoulder. Then she discovered analysis...