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...want," said Johnny Carson, flashing the monologue moue that has become a Tonight show trademark. "I'm stuck for three more years." Stuck? Well, yes, if $5 million a year or so is mucilage. The real sticking point in the latest contract battle between Carson's Carnac the Magnificent and Silverman the Munificent, however, was not money but exposure. Carson demanded less of it than his present 4½ hours a week. NBC President Fred Silverman insisted on more. Eventually they compromised. The Tonight show, as a result, will be cut from 90 minutes a night...
...Cannes, skindivers soar around beds of jeweled coral-reds, violets, purples, yellows-in pursuit of sea bass and mullet. In Australia they prowl the caverns of the1,250-mile Great Barrier Reef, or play tag with the gregarious seals that frolic off Carnac Island. Near London, divers happily muddle through the ooze of a dank lake in Black Park...
France. The famed megalithic stones of Carnac in Brittany have been closely studied for more than a century. There are long rows of menhirs (stone pillars ranging up to 60 ft. in height), dolmens (covered burial cairns) and cromlechs (arcs or circles of stones). Once erroneously ascribed to secret rites of the Celtic Druids, they are now known to have been left by a wiry, long-headed people of the late Stone Age who gave way to the metal-wielding Gauls. They buried or cremated their dead and the stones evidently served some ritual or memorial purpose. Last month Professor...