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Newport's Cameo Café was awash with wassailing sailors. Broken beer glasses littered the floor, and a steady stream of fresh pitchers was passed precariously back over the heads of the yelling, singing crowd. Atop the bar, the most incongruous chorus line in Newport memory clumped groggily to the strains of Waltzing Matilda, with Sir Frank Packer, the doughty "Big Daddy" whose money built Australia's Gretel, in the lead. Weatherly crewmen, hugging their Aussie counterparts, poured drinks down their necks with fraternal abandon. Just as a huge mirror crashed from the wall, the police barged...
Although it is generally too slow to dance to, bossa nova has been the rage of Brazilian café society for several years...
Author Morris tells what may be the third-oldest story in the world too slowly, but with an engaging cheerfulness and a worldly man's willingness to make the most of past masters. His multileveled literary pastiche has the changeable charm of a pousse-caf...
...people scratch a living from the collectivized soil; most of Albania's farm villages and mountain towns have changed little in the last century. Garbage flows through an open gutter cut in the middle of narrow streets; hawk-nosed men sip Turkish coffee in dim cafés while their women shoulder heavy loads of wood and barrels of scarce water. Along with the traditional poverty are Communist posters plugging Dictator Enver Hoxha's slogan: "Build socialism with a pickax in one hand and a gun in the other...
...passing French photographer did a double take. There, dressed in checkered sport coat and dark slacks, and looking unfamiliar out of his Air Force blue, sat NATO's retiring Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Lauris Norstad, 55, taking his ease at a small café in tiny Marnes-la-Coquette near his French headquarters for twelve years. The youthful-looking general, who is quitting as of Nov. 1 due partly to a heart condition, has been a military nomad so long that he has no home of his own. He has not decided what to do-after the first...