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One reason why many Americans opt for vacations abroad is that almost 10% of the better U.S. hotels do not admit Jews. In the winter resorts of Florida and Arizona alone, there are 80 hotels that exclude Jewish--or Jewish-looking guests; 22 of them are in one city, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nonetheless, B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League reported at its 51st annual meeting in Manhattan last week that there has been a dramatic retreat from discriminatory practices over the past six years. Some 60% of the U.S. hotels that overtly excluded Jews in 1957 have now dropped such barriers. In New York State the league found only one "restricted" hotel, in the Adirondacks. Even in Florida and Arizona their ranks have been almost halved. Why? Legal action and educational campaigns have had a liberalizing influence, said the league's chairman, Moviemogul Dore Schary, but the main reason for the thaw is probably "plain old economics."

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