261-5010

Lore

2033 W. 415t Ave.

Maria

Jacket,

(the

look)

$95.

pouch-pocketted,
$120.

Skirt,

narrow-leg

SHUM Uarialion
For flying this summer
(or driving,
or strolling,
or even working).
In
corona yellow or icestorm blue or aviator's
beige or green or natural Swiss cotton.

1978

Wiener

No- cuff

pants

June,

NEWS

$95.

ty

An

oe!
Parachute
pants,

button- cuffed,

$95.

Short- sleeve

blouse,

$85.

QW

Fully

orchestrated
black,

in pale

natural,

and

slate

blue,

dark

and

pale

grey,

and

brilliant

pistachio

orange.

green,

Yet

another

blouse,
from

idea

for

Canterbury,
the

neck,

you

out around

And

back

in

with

the

the

wrinkle-free

travelling

in

crepe

de

chine.

and

cuff,

it

polyester

ruffled

clock.

villa,

sleeping

car,

ship's

cabin,

better

combines

convenience,
LMW
of
and
in

unlined

pink

stripes.

on

charm

gown.

cotton,

compact

in

pink,

nothing

comfort,

and

dressing

$65.

hotel,

pension,
or

collar

a

to

than
It is

be

made

lightweight

suitcase.
or

an

cream

It

comes

with

navy

is

this

will

medieval
Gathered
take

FOR

THIS TRAVEL ISSUE,
WE EXTEND
sympathy to all of you who will hear

system

at

Heathrow

Airport

(or

HEARTFELT
over the P.A.

Frankfurt

or

Rome

or

Los Angeles) that owing to an industrial dispute (or
impaired landing gear or fog) “departure of the following
flight(s)

will

be

delayed

by

one

half

hour...

and

who will subsequently languish in a plastic chair
reading the Herald Tribune from cover to cover and
back again while that half hour miraculously encompasses
a whole revolution of the large clock-hand,
and a
second,
and even a third.
And yet deeper sympathy

for the moment when
unequivocally, runs out
a

graphic

interest

your Herald Tribune finally,
and your aching eyes encounter

design on

the

geometricians

facing

or

wall

serve

as

which

a

might

test

for

colour-

delays

are

re
and you suddenly realize that this could
on for days.
Sympathy made more poignantit by the
knowledge that this suffering is preventable.

That

is

not

to

say

that flight

go

preven-

table.
If they are, it is merely in some academic
sense.
We are doomed to wait in airports.
Airports,
however,
need not be the places of psychological
torture they are now.
They need not be so boring.
Chess boards could be installed. Billiard tables.
Jogging tracks on the roof, with track-suits for rent
and lockers and showers.
It wouldn't cost much,
and
there could be a reasonable charge for the use of
these facilities.
If shrewdly planned,
they could turn
out to be net sources of revenue.
Indeed,
there
seems less risk of being too extravagant than of not
being extravagant enough.
A modest proposal:
casinos in the departure lounges.
In jurisdictions which

prohibit

under

All

public

gambling,

provisions

similar

the

vice

you

risking

your

money.

goes safely out
of revenue.
jazz

want,

to

as

licence
those

long

of the country!
And there's no

as

of

Now
cure

could

be

your

moral

duty-free

extended

shopping.

decay

there is a source
for boredom like

Swimming pools,
arboretums,
string quartets,
quartets,
art galleries, video viewers .*.
. but

why

stop

there?

cash

in their

delays

after

Parks!

Beaches!

Quaint

hotels!

holidays

at the

Dance-floors
strewn with orange-blossoms!
Perhaps the danger in instituting these reforms,
from the airlines' point of view, is that customers might

tickets

and

spend

their

airport.
Yes,
that is undoubtedly so; we have stumbled
on the real reason why things are kept uncomfortable
for us.
So perhaps it is as inevitable as the flight

all.