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Cruising has developed a new identity and allure. The ocean liner, no longer just a vehicle for getting from one continent to another and eating well along the way, has evolved into a floating amusement park, health spa and classroom. The ships, and the trips, are increasingly designed to suit the young and the restless...
...this exotic flower that they hired a launch to ferry reporters out to Wilde's ship the evening before its docking. The press discovered plenty to report: a large (6 ft. 3 in.), broad-shouldered subject who parried their questions adroitly. His response that he had found the ocean voyage uninteresting eventually made its way into a headline: MR. WILDE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE ATLANTIC. And so it went across America for nearly ten months: Wilde preaching art-for-art's-sake to people who had come to gawk at his costumes...
...Africa's neediest cases is Mozambique, the former Portuguese colony on the Indian Ocean that is almost as poor as Ethiopia. Mozambique has been embroiled in civil war from the moment it became independent in 1975. Its economic infrastructure has been destroyed by rebels, and the U.N. estimates that 6 million people face starvation in the west and north, where reliefworkers are afraid to go. Says a Mozambican army officer who recently toured some of the worst-hit areas: "I talked to people who had barely enough flesh to cover their skeletons. Their bones made noises under the skin...
...Just in time for next year's Olympic games, 50 will be retooled as javelins for Soviet track and field teams. New world records are expected, though measuring distances may be tough. The Russians have already provided assurances that throwers will aim for untraveled areas in the Pacific Ocean...
...those stories about the Bermuda Triangle, that mysterious patch of water and air off the southeastern U.S. where planes and ships inexplicably disappear, never to be seen again. South African Airways Flight 295, bound for Johannesburg from Taipei, was ten minutes away from its scheduled landing on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius for refueling when the pilot radioed the control tower saying there was smoke in the cabin. The Boeing 747 was immediately cleared for an emergency instrument landing. Said Servan Sing, an air-traffic controller on Mauritius: "After that, we had no contact...