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...estimated 90,000 Japanese couples this year will spend their wedding nights in Hawaii, a favorite honeymoon spot. In addition, 5,000 couples elope each year to the islands or remarry there. Wesley Walker and his son Gary, ordained Church of Christ ministers in Honolulu, marry more than 3,000 Japanese couples each year for a modest $300 per ceremony. Most arrive from Tokyo with civil marriage certificates and wait a day before the nuptials to overcome jet lag. Says Denny Walker, family business manager: "One tour company insisted on first-day weddings, and we had a couple of brides...
...incident seems too sensitive to be turned into one of Sliwa's public-relations bids. He married a fellow Angel on Christmas Eve 1981, and the two spent their "honeymoon" patrolling the New York subways. The media were invited, and one T. V. report showed Sliwa carrying his new bride through a subway turnstile instead of over a threshold...
Jimmy Carter, in Keeping Faith, acknowledges: "We were somewhat ostentatious about setting a high moral standard for ourselves, and so my Administration was not to be given any room for error by the press." He quotes a good crack by his press secretary, Jody Powell: "There never was a honeymoon with the press, but just a one-night stand." Characteristically, Carter criticizes the press in the words of a "small group of senior political advisers" he had summoned to Camp David: "Everyone agreed that the news media were superficial in their treatment of national and international events and tended...
...main question facing President Amin Gemayel, and his country, is whether the ruling Christian Phalangists can create and maintain a working alliance with their old Muslim foes that will survive the honeymoon period of the new presidency. As he accepted a red-and-white sash imprinted with the Cedar of Lebanon as the emblem of his office, Gemayel last week indicated that he perceived the dangers. "A single concern grips us now," he said. "This is to stop the vicious cycle of bloody violence on Lebanon's soil.'' -By Russ Hoyle. Reported by William Stewart/Beirut
...fell upon Greenwich Village in legendary times, and she became a legend herself. Pursuing what she described as the "downward path to salvation," she experienced in short order an abortion, a marriage that failed to survive the European honeymoon, and a not very passionate love affair, designed primarily to produce the child she had come to long for, Tamar...