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...acre Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park. The hundreds gathered in his honor needed no reminder that it was Douglas who spearheaded a campaign to save the 184-mile towpath along the C&O canal from becoming a highway-in 1954 he led conservationists on an eight-day hike from Georgetown to Cumberland, Md., to publicize the cause. At the dedication ceremonies, Douglas' wife Cathy unveiled a bust of her husband as six Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, looked on. "Thanks for coming, Chief," smiled Douglas. "This has to be a quorum." Though he looked frail...
...conference does get off the ground, much of the credit will belong to its prospective chairman, British Foreign Secretary David Owen, 38. Last week the neurologist-turned-diplomat returned to London from an eight-day fact-finding trip to Africa. He impressed both white and black leaders with his candor, youthful idealism and realistic understanding of the Rhodesian impasse. Rhodesian diplomats, who were angered by the cold aloofness of a team led in January by Britain's U.N. Ambassador, Ivor Richard, described Owen as "tough" and "refreshing." He is hopeful that the heads of the front-line states-Angola...
...Beach. There, at the garish 15-story Americana Hotel, the heads of 34 AFL-CIO unions representing some 20 million workers-about 21% of U.S. wage earners-gather every February to talk strategy under the sun and in sybaritic splendor. TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman attended this year's eight-day meeting and filed this report...
...global foray with the care of a man who might not soon be making another. He had already decided that unless a crisis should intervene (over SALT or southern Africa, for instance), he would not be traveling outside the U.S. again until after the November elections. Thus for the eight-day trip he began last week, the Secretary was obliged to pick places to which he could safely go-not for reasons of security but of domestic politics. That ruled out China, the Soviet Union or the Middle East, where Kissinger's presence might inadvertently have an adverse effect...
...calendar was so crowded that the eight-day faith festival was inevitably dubbed the "Catholic Olympics." There were Masses for children and the physically handicapped, blacks and Ruthenians, even a military Mass unwittingly scheduled on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing-so many Masses that the congress's congregations used 1,700,000 Communion wafers. Dave Brubeck and Ella Fitzgerald offered religious jazz, the Dance Theater of Harlem turned to religious choreography, and Monaco's Prince Rainier and Princess Grace addressed a "family life" conference...