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Show WHEN IT COMES TO TRAVEL, WOMEN REALLY DO THE LIBERATING new feeling, a greater trce-dom trce-dom I'm- women lo respond today, especially in choosing a neutral pleasure object like a vacal ion . " Mr. Kelley noted thai many single women had taken I lie weekender trips to Florida last fall "and inleresl-i inleresl-i n l; ly . that many mothers made the arrangements for the family weekenders, which surest s an even stronger feminine fem-inine role, " he said . The airline is offering some 6."i weekenders this fall, more than double last year's total. Each package includes meals, hotel accommodations. accommoda-tions. 1 ra n s portalion and sightseeing tours. If f'hineas Fogg. London's own SO -day globetrotter ever decided to go around the world today, he might well cut his traveling time in half and have his wife or girlfriends girl-friends make the arrangements. arrange-ments. "It's not surprising to me, but more and more women are controlling and shaping the style of American vacations," vaca-tions," said Maurice Kelley, division vice president marketing mar-keting planning and advertising advertis-ing for Eastern Airlines. Last fall. Eastern introduced intro-duced a series of four-day package vacations known as "Autumn Weekenders" to major cities throughout the north and south. The program pro-gram was a startling success with increased bookings of more than 20(1 percent for the normally slow fall period. "We had seen in previous surveys that nearly 10 percent per-cent of our passengers were taking brief vacations on short notice and that most of these reservations were made by women." Mr. Kelley said. "The prospects for short vacations, offered as something some-thing lo do on impulse, were fascinating. As it turned out, more women 63 percent, to be exact decided on the weekender vacations much faster than the men who tended to deliberate," Mr -jZJrKwa Kelley said, lie ascribed a certain cer-tain degree of the impulse reaction to Women's Liberation. Libera-tion. "Let's face it. There is a |