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...debilitated is the dollar that some Europeans -- not just the jet-set crowd, mind you -- are dropping in on New York City just for a weekend, blitzing the stores along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and queuing up for Broadway shows. "We've been to Majorca, Crete and Yugoslavia," says one of the whirlwind invaders, Phil Stevens, 43, a carpet fitter from Britain. "But," he crows, "America is so cheap this year...
Such success brings a little creature comfort for Hamnett, Sam and young William (born in 1981), like the getaway cottage the family keeps in Majorca. It also permits the designer an occasional indulgence (her North London office, walled round with papier-mache rock, looks like Plato's cave built from a prefab kit) and a healthy dose of esthetic restiveness. "I try to be creative and earn money at it," she says. "But it's like being a painter and having a gun pointed at you. I envy Marcel Duchamp for just stopping. Though he had a rich wife." Hamnett...
...only 916 visitors, but again entrepreneurial Icelanders promptly filled the gap. Houses and apartments in central Reykjavik were renting for an unheard of $6,000 to $7,000 for the summit week. "This is a chance of a lifetime," said one woman. "I'd much rather be in Majorca anyway." The Soviet Union plans to solve the space crunch by sending one or more cruise ships to Reykjavik harbor to act as floating hotels for reporters and support workers...
...porch of Clarence House, her London residence, with her daughters, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, and two of her grandsons, accompanied by their wives (Prince Charles with the Princess of Wales and the new Duke and Duchess of York). Then "the Waleses" were off to the Mediterranean island of Majorca for a private vacation visit with "the Spains," King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia. They were met at the airport by a royal entourage, including exiled King Constantine of Greece, who drove them through town in a VW bus, as tourists gawked. After a few days of warmth, the British...
...designed to sell. It did. His own autobiography, Goodbye to All That (1929), was more than a parting shot at an England he could no longer abide. Graves intended the book to stir outrage and sales, and he succeeded. Settled in splendid self-exile on the Spanish island of Majorca, he countered mounting debts by writing the historical novel I, Claudius...