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...life, Thompson has done the only thing open to a scholar with such penchants but no mystical or magical experience. In 1973 he founded his own learning center in Southampton, N.Y. It is called "Lindisfarne" after an ancient monastery school in Scotland that helped keep learning alive through the Dark Ages. There Thompson and his followers are quietly preparing for cultural transformation, whatever form it might take, whenever it comes. If it comes...
...nervous crew members were paid $125 "danger bonuses" for the 14-day cruise, and ten rabbis on board prayed for the Q.E.2's safety as the ship sailed out of Southampton Harbor. From there, the ship was followed by Royal Air Force jets; as she entered the Strait of Gibraltar she was joined by a British destroyer. The Q.E.'s crew was augmented for the occasion by at least 50 security men and several Labrador retrievers whose mission was to sniff out any explosives that might be hidden within the ship. With three tons of matzoth...
...Soul Empress Aretha Franklin. Sold his lively, swinging company in 1967 to firm that eventually became Warner Communications for $18 million, but continued to run it. Lives with wife Mica in Manhattan town house in which living room and bedroom each occupy an entire floor, also has estate in Southampton, Long Island. Throws jet-set parties, has entertained Lady Sarah Churchill Russell as well as Mick Jagger. Over the years has composed several hit songs (Don't Play That Song, Sweet Sixteen, Wild, Wild Young Men) under the name Nugetre-Ertegun spelled backward...
...Cunard Line, which expects the alterations to help increase the Q.E.2's profits by 50%, seems prepared to weather the storm. But even the line's chairman, Victor Matthews, looked a little queasy after he toured the liner a few hours before it was due to depart Southampton for New York. "This is a disaster," he said, having peered through half-painted cabins with naked light bulbs hanging from their sockets and cables strewn across the floors. "The ship looks as though a bomb has hit it." The Q.E.2's departure was delayed three days while workmen...
Married. Magda Gabor, fiftyish, eldest and most seldom seen of the three Gabor sisters; and Tiber Heltai, 52, economic consultant; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Southampton, L.I. Magda's most recent spouse was the late actor George Sanders, an early husband of sister...