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...Haunted Honeymoon...
Connors and Evert Lloyd, fiances of the early '70s, proved their fealty to winning and Wimbledon at the same time, back when his mother helped cool the romance with that chilling line, "Nobody wins Wimbledon on their honeymoon." Of his 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-7 loss to Seguso, 23, Connors said, "I played all right. He was kind of unconscious, serving bomb after bomb. If he'd faltered an inch, I'd have been all over him." Mentioning archly how Seguso must "play up to his responsibility" now, Connors questioned whether the pretender could do it again...
That kind of plangent wistfulness is hardly confined to Mother's account of her honeymoon or Grandpa's homesickness for his youth. The tug and ache of nostalgia pull even at the hardiest of travelers. The caustic Evelyn Waugh introduces his collection of travel essays, When the Going Was Good, with a heartbroken valedictory to a vanished Golden Age of travel that is, in effect, a valentine to his own lost youth. In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore...
Indeed, when Presser, 59, returned from Las Vegas to Cleveland for arraignment on Saturday, he interrupted a honeymoon that began with his fifth marriage on May 4 (to ex-Local 507 Secretary Cindy Jarabek, 38). He was anticipating near certain re-election to a five-year term as president by the Teamsters International convention that opens in Las Vegas on Monday. Presser is the fourth of the past five Teamster chiefs to be indicted either while in office or shortly thereafter...
...staggering agenda of problems that include a $26.2 billion foreign debt, the military threat posed by 16,000 Communist insurgents and a political system crippled by two decades of corruption. Though Aquino has committed no major blunders, she has yet to answer the questions that will arise once her honeymoon ends. "Her credibility is high in terms of popular support," says Edgardo Angara, president of the University of the Philippines. "What may be a little unsettling to some people is the question of whether that credibility is backed up by the political ability to manage...