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Worn Out. In a village with two hotels (one owned by Bouvet), an inn and a café, the marrying mayor has almost a monopoly on the commercial fruits of marriage. If a religious ceremony is requested, Church Sexton Bouvet makes the arrangements. His wife is a ready witness, though she is usually busy preparing the wedding dinner (or breakfast) at the Bouvets' hotel, where the mayor lodges the honeymooners...
...mores have affected the restaurants, shops, services, styles and architecture; Sydney and Melbourne now have a variety of eating places to compare with New York or San Francisco. Seventy foreign-language newspapers are published in Australia; Italian, Dutch and Greek clubs can be found everywhere, and the outdoor café has become a part of the Australian way of life...
...federal system. Two weeks ago, he summoned party leaders to his Brioni Island retreat in the Adriatic Sea and scheduled a special party conference to convene this summer. Last week, he stepped up his warnings against "those who cannot be convinced," including "some generals who sit around the cafés," "megalomaniacs who want to become President," and intellectuals who have opposed his recent proposals...
...city from other African countries to take jobs. There are 20,000 Frenchmen in the Ivory Coast today, six times as many as a decade ago. French President Georges Pompidou visited the city last month, took one look at the clover-leafed expressways, tree-shaded boulevards, sidewalk cafés and miniskirted girls-and pronounced the Ivory Coast "a model for all Africa...
...functionaries and shy away from decisions. One Leningrad doctor, hired by a health insurance company, was aghast when his new boss told him to pick a vacation date. In Jerusalem, a newly arrived photographer from Moscow hesitated when TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin bought him Coca-Cola at an outdoor café. "It was a reflex action," the photographer explained sheepishly. "In the Soviet Union, Coca-Cola is the archsymbol of the imperialist and the aggressor. But here in Israel it's safe to be an aggressor, no?" He drank the Coke...