Teen-Age Invasion of Europe
(Continued)
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clined to be impatient with the
slow pace of Europeans and to
hunger for hamburgers and sodas.
Occasionally, some pampered
teen-agers have indulged in cut
ups and antagonized the natives.
In Switzerland last year, five girls
who couldn't make their dessert
order understood flew into a rage,
ripped up the hotel draperies,
smashed a vase, and did damage
totaling $150. Girls also are in
clined to drip-dry their clothes
over expensive rugs or to phone
home and neglect to pay the toll.
Although most tours require
"character references," once in a
while an obnoxious youngster
slips in. One boy who consistently
got drunk and a snippy girl who
stubbornly wore Bermuda shorts
in an elegant dining room were
dispatched home halfway through
the itinerary. Such flagrant mis
behavior, however, is uncommon.
A willful, inconsiderate teen
ager can create a nightmare for the
chaperoning leaders. In Rome last
summer, 17-year-old Phyllis, a
starry-eyed high-school junior
from a Chicago suburb, left her
hotel for the post office and van
ished. Frantically, the tour leaders
searched for her all over Italy. Fi
nally, after three weeks, the girl
was located. Phyllis, determined on
a career as a ballerina, had hopped
a train to Paris, where she was
staying with an aunt.
ON some tours, the more so
phisticated, older teen-agers
may be permitted with parental
approval to visit places frequent
ed by their daring elders. At the
Folies Bergere in Paris, most of the
youngsters are bored and walk out
halfway through the show.
"No talent," they say, or "It's ter
ribly overrated, strictly a show for
farmers and old men."
At the Koursaal, a night club and
gambling casino in Lucerne, Swit
zerland, one youngster walked out
with enough winnings to pay for
a succession of parties virtually
every evening during the last two
weeks of the tour. When he re
turned home, he still had $1,300
more than the original cost of his
trip abroad!
Unlike this lucky tourist, most
of the teen-agers bring back in
tangibles of value. "They return,"
observes John McNulty of Ameri
can Express, "with the sights,
sounds, and smells of Europe, a
view of geography and history."
Some deliver travelogues at
their high schools. Those on study
tours acquire a better command of
a foreign language and a fresh in
sight into international problems.
For many, their first roving trip is
but a sampling, and they become
bent on returning as adults to
countries which caught their fancy.
And there's also an awakened ap
preciation of their native land,
sometimes reflected by the tears in
their eyes as the orchestra on the
homebound ship plays The Star
Spangled Banner.
One shy, awkward, plain-looking
girl from a small Midwest town
returned home after a summer in
Europe with a new hairdo, a chic
wardrobe, and a self-confident
poise that amazed her parents and
friends. Going abroad had magi
cally altered her personality.
From all signs and portents, the
teen-age travel trend will keep
booming as word spreads among
the younger set. With the shortage
of ship and air space, the problem
for adults may be to get to Europe
without having to make a reserva
tion in the first-class Verandah
Grill of the Queen Mary!
For More Information on Teen-Age Travel
American Express Co., 65 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
American Friends Service Committee, 20 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
(For work camps)
American Student Information Service, FrankfurtMain, Germany.
(For summer jobs)
American Youth Abroad, 83 University Station, Minneapolis 14, Minn.
American Youth Hostels, 14 W. 8th St., New York 11, N.Y.
Arista Student Travel Assn. (Thos. Cook & Son), 587 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y,
Council on Student Travel, 179 Broadway, New York 7, N.Y.
Experiment in International Living, Putney, Vt. (Live with European families)
Sita World Travel, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N.Y.
Travel and Cultural Exchange, Inc., 550 Fifth Ave., New York 36, N.Y.
(Living with French family)
United Christian Youth Movement, 79 E. Adams, Chicago 3, III.
(Work opportunities)
U.S. National Student Assn., 20 W. 38th St., New York, N.Y.
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