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In 1964 a clean folded square of cloth went into an American pocket every morning as automatically as keys and change, and a dresser drawer held a pressed…
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In 1964 an American man owned a hat, knew its size in eighths of an inch, set the brim himself every morning, took it off the moment he…
Somewhere between the elevator and the first cup of lobby coffee, every traveler joins a temporary society: the hotel breakfast buffet, where strangers in various stages of consciousness negotiate shared…
Every summer weekend, a few hundred strangers in swimsuits share a strip of sand with no assigned seats, no referee, and one lifeguard whose jurisdiction ends at the waterline —…
A wedding invitation looks like a request for your company, but every couple, and every planner, knows it's really a small test of character, graded on a code of conduct…
Staying in someone's home is one of travel's great bargains and great privileges, and the guests who get invited back all seem to follow the same code, a set of…