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...never had time for leisure," he continued. "I've always had a schedule, a purpose. I've always been an ambitious and driving person." He looked across the table at his wife. "Rosalynn and I haven't had a vacation since our honeymoon." Then he said they will spend the next two weeks at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands...
...Congressman need not be dull, especially if the Congressman is Democrat John Jenrette, who lost his House seat in the November election after being convicted of bribery in the FBI Abscam investigation. Writing in last weekend's Washington Post magazine, Rita Jenrette, 30, confesses: "I knew the honeymoon was over when I rolled over one morning to find John's side of the bed unruffled. I found him drunk, undressed and lying on the floor in the arms of a woman who I knew was old enough to be his mother." But all such problems are behind them...
Animator Walter Lantz and his bride Gracie did not get much sleep on their 1941 honeymoon. Explains Walter, now 80: "It was this darned woodpecker. He made a terrible racket and ruined the roof of our cottage." Unable to silence the pest, Lantz made him immortal-by introducing the creature into one of his Andy Panda cartoons. "Universal Studios told me I ought to have my head examined," he recalls. "They said he's noisy, raucous, obnoxious; he'll never go." They were right, except on that last point. Now in his 40th year, Woody Woodpecker remains...
Well, almost. Incidents of renewed terrorism marred the junta's uneasy post-coup honeymoon. Vowing opposition to the military regime, leftist guerrillas ambushed and killed a tank captain in Adana and a senior police officer in Istanbul. A left-wing extremist was killed in Istanbul when friends tried to free him from police custody. In the meantime, the military's roundup of suspected extremists continued, with more than 2,000 under arrest by the end of the week, and the offices of some 150 labor unions were closed down. The junta also ordered citizens to remove all political...
...most accounts, at least in the current honeymoon period, they could not have done better than to rally around General Evren, who is described by a Western military expert in Turkey as "a father figure to his soldiers, an honest man with strong common sense." A native Anatolian, he is a stickler for rank and tradition; newsmen thought it was probably symbolic that they were carefully instructed to wear jackets and ties to his press conference last week. During the search for a new President over the past five months, Evren was suggested as a candidate but he turned down...