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...state in your story "Blackpool in the Sun" [July 7], we Brits are lured to the U.S. by reasonable hotel rates, cheap flights and a good exchange rate. But the thing that left an indelible impression on me was the friendly and hospitable natives, especially in the West. The unfailing willingness to have a chat, discuss politics, swap drinks and stories makes the U.S. top in the friendship league, followed by Germany, with France very definitely at the bottom...
...prices make it a powerful competitor of the Spanish resorts that have long attracted the working-class English vacationer. But today there are few places in the world where a lad and his lass from Lancashire can get a better vacation bargain than in what some call in jest "Blackpool in the Sun," after the blue-collar British vacation spot of less affluent times. Two weeks at a Miami Beach hotel, round-trip air fare included, can cost as little as $470. One British tour firm, Intasun, alone has reserved 6,000 beds a night in 21 Florida hotels...
...moderate-to-right contingent headed by former Prime Minister James Callaghan. Last week Labor's left won another round in the skirmish, but in so doing raised anew the prospect of a permanent split in the party, which could come as early as the annual conference at Blackpool next fall...
...meantime, the Foreign Secretary visited Blackpool to defend the negotiations before a turbulent Conservative Party conference. Heckled and jeered by pro-Rhodesia right-wingers, Carrington withstood their demands for an immediate lifting of sanctions and pledged not to allow "any party to unilaterally determine the outcome of the London conference." Carrington's speech received a standing ovation and his position prevailed in a conference resolution; it called for an end to sanctions and recognition of the breakaway colony "as soon as practically possible...
Callaghan, 67, took his setback philosophically. "My mind is quiet," he later said privately. He promised his inner circle that he would stay on as leader at least through the 1980 conference in Blackpool...