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When it comes to keeping cool in public, Prince Charles and Diana have few rivals. But even the royal couple found themselves wilting a bit last week as they began a ten-day tour of Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in 92 degrees heat. "It's a sudden shock, arriving after a long flight coming from the English winter," confessed the perspiring Prince. Diana, for her part, was kept in the shade, both physically and socially, reflecting the local tradition of keeping men and women separate. During a visit with the Omani Women's Association, the Princess witnessed...
...hostages were among the first to telephone the priest in the Syrian capital of Damascus: Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. During his stopover there, Jenco also received a call from Vice President George Bush, who was in Frankfurt at the beginning of a ten-day trip to the Middle East. Bush had hoped to remain in West Germany for Jenco's arrival but in the end felt obliged to depart as scheduled for Israel...
...American evangelistic star is the Rev. Billy Graham, 67, now in his fifth decade of traveling revivalism. But Graham has long had a concern for his less celebrated brethren. This month in Amsterdam, he greeted 8,000 preachers invited from all over the world to attend the ten-day International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists, a meeting twice as large as the first such gathering, in 1983. It was a massive $21 million training session, made possible only by the administrative and fund-raising muscle of Graham's organization...
...sooner had the last sparkle of the Liberty celebration faded than another French-American spectacle lighted up the night. Last week, as part of a ten-day France Salutes New York festival, the Paris Opera Ballet, making its first U.S. visit in 38 years, shared a stage with the American Ballet Theatre before a benefit audience brimming with celebrities, including Nancy Reagan. One highlight of the festivities was provided by Rudolf Nureyev, 48, the Paris troupe's artistic director, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, 38, his counterpart at A.B.T. The two Soviet-exile superstars joined French-born Actress Leslie Caron...
Antebellum gowns and Confederate uniforms were back in vogue in Atlanta and environs at a ten-day celebration marking the 50th anniversary of Margaret Mitchell's novel about the Old South, Gone With the Wind. The U.S. Postal Service last week even issued a definitive memorial 1 cents U.S. postage stamp with Mitchell's likeness. As if to confirm the cult status of the Pulitzer- prize-winning novel (25 million copies sold in 27 languages) and the 1939 movie, serious philatelists and GWTW aficionados alike stormed a postal booth and bought 50,000 of the new stamps...