Youth: Those lazy, Hazy Days

Summer vacation! All through the school years these words once shone with dreams of long and lazy days —fish-jumping, hammock-reading, fun-filled days of time to do everything, and no need to do anything at all. But to contemporary boys and girls, summer means something else again. Even for the gold coast types with sports cars to burn, loafing is Out and working is In.

"Once it was three wonderful months of clambakes and necking," a matron remembers wistfully. "The boys just had a good time and the girls helped them have it. Now they've all got to be off...

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