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11.5.60

Dear Folks,

Well, one month from tonight that big jet flies into S.F. airport! I'm
already more excited about that prospect than I have been about any event over
here so far. I don't know how I'll be able to stand it in Vienna, just wandering
around - I'll probably want to hop the next free plane from there and fly home early.
Say, in rereading the letter from the Travel Agency I just noted
a question: my flight (#125 on Pan American Airlines) is to arrive in
San Francisco at 8:30 p.m. But I don't know whether that's daylight or
standard time - check with some Fresno travel agency and let me know will
you? And arrive accordingly in S.F., since I don't especially want
to stand around for an hour at that point!

Nothing much special has happened since I wrote last week. I
spent the weekend here on the Burg mainly - to get some studying done.
Friday I drove a bus load (8 of us) into Stuttgart, to meet Herr Zimmerman
(our German instructor) and tour the modern art exhibits with him.
There is one temporary exhibit, to be sold in an auction on May 17, and
a recently acquired permanent exhibit in the city art gallery. Both
are excellent and the hours we spent there very interesting - they have
several Picassos (they can keep him), Cragallo (whom I like), Noldes, and
many others, mostly German of course.

Saturday morning I spent a couple of hours packing and mailing
things home - a suitcase full of clothes, and a carton with several
things in it, some of it that I've bought over here. They should arrive around
the 1st of June; I addressed them to me at 607 Equitable Bldg - you
may get them without any problem, but more likely they will be held for
customs clearance (which I must obtain in S.F. on return). If you
get them however, please do not open them, but just keep them
until I get there.

The rest of the weekend was spent about 3/4 studying and 1/4
enjoying the gorgeous warm early summer weather we have here. I
spend most of each day in my bermuda shorts now - we can wear them
to class too! - and have played lots of hours of volleyball in the past
few days. With all the trees green and tulips and other flowers (and
lilac bushes in pale purple) in bloom, the air fresh and warm, it is
delightful beyond description.

Did I tell you, our Luxembourg trip is cancelled, since the authorities
there will need our meeting rooms for their own conferences. But we
have a 4 day weekend on our own instead and I'll be going with a
carload of kids up the Rhine to Holland, back through Luxembourg,
Treves and Strasbourg. Some familiar country to see again much that
I haven't seen. That will be my only real trip until after finals,