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Many motels now take children under 14 free, but the William Hilton Inn in Hilton Head, S.C., has a nurse and helpers who mind children and even feed them in the dining room while parents are busy elsewhere. Staid Boston is building the Fenway Commonwealth, a six-story, Continental-flavor motel with reproductions of Italian provincial furniture and atmosphere built into the walls. At the Ocean-House Motel in San Diego, waiters are dressed in 17th century costumes as British naval officers, and macaws shrill from cages as guests swim in one of the largest pools in Southern California. Other...
...insertion of an extraneous matter of agricultural prices in the closing Brussels session. Paris quickly contested the British version of the breakdown of the talks, said that discussions had actually foundered when Heath himself decided to "reserve his position" on the matter of further British concessions on safeguards for Commonwealth farm exports...
...blessing in disguise. The delay, they reasoned, would stifle the criticism from British opponents of the Common Market on both the Left and the Right who have bitterly complained that the Macmillan government was rushing Britain into Europe with undue haste. Moreover, the deadlock could be interpreted by the Commonwealth Prime Ministers, who will confer in London next month, as heartening proof of Britain's intention to stand firm on behalf of Commonwealth interests and to hold out for the best possible terms...
...down for the last time. By sending the Queen's sister to the ceremony, Britain made it warmly plain that no hard feelings linger from Jamaica's abrupt rejection last year of the London-fostered West Indies Federation. Independent Jamaica has been assured a place in the Commonwealth...
...what Leonardo da Vinci had failed to do nearly 450 years ago: build and fly an aircraft powered only by man. The payoff is tempting: a $14,000 prize donated by London Industrialist Henry Kremer, 55. The rules of the contest are deceptively simple. All a citizen of the Commonwealth has to do is fly a heavier-than-air craft over a figure-eight course, around two turning points not less than half a mile apart. According to requirements spelled out by the Royal Aeronautical Society, the plane must be launched from ground level; it must be powered and controlled...