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...White House issued a cryptic statement indicating that Lynda Bird Johnson, 22, "has begun her summertime travel plans." Everybody thought that she would head straight for Spain to start off a European jaunt. But no, the itinerary veered off to Los Angeles, where Lynda got together with a furry-looking character named George Hamilton, 26, her beau, now bearded for a movie part. While they fox-trotted at a benefit ball, the U.S. Embassy staff in Madrid was scouting around to find a stand-in for George, to escort the young lady while she's there...
...whole, say Seven Seas officials, there were no more disciplinary problems than landlubber schools have. On the first jaunt, by the time the ship reached Hong Kong, three girls and one boy had been "asked to leave" for drinking and sex offenses. During the recently completed semester, two professors were let go: one, who lectured on hashish, was dismissed after some of his subject was found aboard; the other had violated university rules by entertaining students at jazz and beer parties in his office on the ship's fantail. All in all, says Roberta Mount, "it's really...
Jazz NOW'S THE TIME! (RCA Victor). After years spent stubbornly exploring the back roads of modern jazz, Tenor Saxophonist Sonny Rollins knows his way unerringly around the territory. He goes off like a firecracker in Miles Davis' Four, takes a postmeridian jaunt in John Lewis' Afternoon in Paris, nods to Charlie Parker in his dry-eyed blues Now's the Time, makes Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight sound fathoms deep...
...Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin take a slapstick and tongue-wagging jaunt on a suspension bridge in Murray Schisgal's spoof of the theater of the absurd. Director Mike Nichols mixes word gags and sight gags with unerring skill...
...pigeons strut unchallenged down Park Avenue. Head over to Fulton Street Market and have an-early seafood breakfast with rubber-booted fishermen at Sloppy Louie's (92 South Street). By six the early commuters are pushing in on the subways and Broadway is alive again. It's a melancholy jaunt...