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view of all this I had to survey my existing wardrobe and decide what I'd need to get for the trip. With the limitations I had you can't just take a variety of colors and styles so I decided to work my things around green and orange. My hair is kind of a copper blonde so these two colors go well. I ended up with a green pantsuit and orange slacks with 2 different orange and white tops which could be alternated with the green pants. I found some very thin, cheap, pretty and washable dresses so put in 3 of them. Then an orange dressy suit and 1 long dress. Black shoes and bag and white shoes and bag plus miscellaneous accessories made up the load. I made it at 43 lbs.

First off, I flew to Detroit on Sat., Aug. 30 to meet with the girls of the Beta chapter of FPE who had some ideas about FPE to discuss. We did but came to no fixed conclusions. I had to point out that democracy which is a desirable state in an open society of any kind is basically in- compatible with the concept of security which is fundamental to the needs of those making up the majority of FPE members.

Sunday I flew to Newark and was met by a friend with whom I stayed for two days. Monday was Labor Day and very hot so we just sat around all day and went out to dinner. Tues. I took the bus into N. Y. to get my Yugoslavian visa and to get a Typhus shot. Visited the Editor of Sexology about possibility of more articles but everybody is now into the "How to do it" sort of thing so Gender and Sex, or FP and such were not "in". Also visited Simon and Schuster and talked to one of the Asst. Eds. about my projected book on Androgeny. They would like to see the outline and first chapter when I get around to it. Also visited Lola de Borsody who was in the hospital. She is the gal who does electrology, gives facials and makeup lessons and has her ad in most issues of TVia. She was up and around but still there for some tests or something. I trust she is back home and back to normal by now.

Tues. evening Frank met me in N. Y. and took me out to Kennedy. We parked on the grounds of a hotel near the airport while I surreptitiously changed from the dress I'd worn around the city to my green pants suit for the transatlantic flight. Then we had dinner and I got aboard the Pan Am 727 for the 9PM flight. The plane wasn't too full and I managed to snag an empty 4 seat section in the middle where I could lay down but Boeing didn't have sleep in mind when they designed those seats as there is a hard ridge between each seat which manages to dig into you some- where when you are stretched out. So there wasn't much rest that night. Arriving at Orly airport in Paris about 9AM I was met by Maurice

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