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...Mustafa Algan Bey, ostensibly Turkey's premier dealer in precious carpets. Their adventures take them in and out of jail cells, dungeons, buses, trucks and steamers and across the length and breadth of Poppyland. About the only peril they do not indulge in is erotica. However, Scotsman Ivor Drummond's dippy novel could also serve as a tourist's guide to Turkey. Caveat from Jenny re Istanbul; "Too many dead cats and too many live cockroaches...
Vacations are also a big-budget item. "Before we had a house and baby we spent all our money on trips," says Ivor Bloom, 29, manager of Crimson Travel Service's Boston office. Bloom's wife also works in the travel business. "We are fairly typical," he notes. "If a couple has not made the major purchase of a house, they put their extra income into seeing the world." When the new elite travels, it is to stay longer at more distant, expensive and exotic destinations. Young two-earner couples prefer to pay more for guaranteed rather than...
...mention the usual clutch of Whitneys and Vanderbilts. Around the barns of the great breeding farms-Spendthrift, Claiborne and the like-and under the canopies covering the caviar at auction-weekend parties, the talk was peppered with the names of sires: What A Pleasure, Round Table, Sir Ivor, Northern Dancer. A casual comment about one filly brought the quick question: "How was she bred, ma'am?" The equally quick answer: "By Secretariat out of Crimson Saint by Crimson Satan, seven wins in eleven starts for over $90,000." That yearling was gaveled off at Keeneland a few days later...
...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, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia-can persuade Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe of the anti-Smith Patriotic Front to attend the new conference. Last week Owen discussed his views on Rhodesia...
With that terse announcement, followed by a long sad sigh, British Negotiator Ivor Richard last week formally acknowledged what was already apparent. Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith had rejected a British proposal for achieving black majority rule within 14 months. That plan envisioned a 32-man interim government of blacks and whites, with a British "commissioner" at its head (TIME, Jan. 17). Since the commissioner would have a decisive vote and broad discretionary powers to alter the racial makeup of the group, Smith dismissed the idea as "political suicide." He insisted instead on Henry Kissinger's proposal...