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...thing that Britain's Conservatives did not manage to win in their stunning election upset last month was a reasonably long political honeymoon. Last week, less than a month after Prime Minister Edward Heath had moved his things into No. 10 Downing Street, he was coping with not one but two major crises...
...ratio is even more lopsided when it comes to tourism. Of 1,300,000 visitors last year, the overwhelming majority came from Sweden, West Germany, Norway, the U.S. and Britain, in that order. To lure even more Westerners, the Finns have even been selling Kaamos Aika package deals to honeymoon couples. Kaamos Aika is the winter-long period of perpetual night in remote Lapland...
...campus issue, environmental degradation has attracted countless student radicals. Now the honeymoon may be over. At the University of Michigan teach-in last week, dissident blacks insisted that ecology is a mere diversion from more pressing issues. "There are 50 bills in the legislature on environmental problems," said one black speaker, "but none on the rats in Detroit, Flint and Jackson." Viet Nam activists are beginning to suspect that the war is also being forgotten because of increasing emphasis on the environment. To refocus discontent on Viet Nam and racial problems, campus radicals are planning a counter teach...
Orly Birds. Only one couple, Singer Paul Anka and Anne de Zagheb, have been married at Orly (in the airport chapel), but a lot of couples have slept there. The 268-room Orly Hilton and the 56-room Air Hótel are equally popular with the honeymoon crowd and the cinq-à-sept set who want to avoid being spotted by relatives or friends in downtown hótels de passé. Such liaisons have already become part of the Gallic tradition; in Une Femme Mariée, Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 film, one love scene...
...screaming, jostling crowd of 200 rushed them at the airport. When it was all over, the bride had lost the heel of a shoe and her nylons were in shreds. Pursued by paparazzi throughout their Roman honeymoon, South Africa's Dr. Christian Barnard and his Barbara took it all in good heart. After all, "those fellows have a job to do too," said the doctor. He may have second thoughts. From Rome their honeymoon odyssey took them to the U.S., where they caught Liza Minnelli's act in New York, viewed the space center at Huntsville...