Amsterdam Hippie Tourism Draws World Wide Visitors
May records show more than 80 000 foreign tourists spend nights in Amsterdam with overviews from South Africa Japan and Israel well represented. Visitors include students and workers with occupation stamps like beatnik clerk writer and industrialist. Local coordinators describe a permissive scene in bars and clubs catering to diverse groups while the city provides cheap lodging through labor and public housing. A police squad polices Dam Square as Kabouters symbolically push social change amid homelessness efforts. Rome notes Communist Party gains in two of fifteen new Italian regions.