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Apparently without any new ideas for confronting the nation's economic troubles, Carter did his best to sound confident. At a press conference, his 50th since taking office, Carter declared that he had "no intent to back down" on the Administration legislation blocked in Congress. He added that he is undismayed by the stampede among Democrats to draft Ted Kennedy as their candidate for President in 1980: "No President can expect to have unanimous support." His "difficult" decisions on energy, inflation and foreign policy, Carter said, have cost him votes, "and if I should ever modify my positions away...
...obviously 1 not quite fit as a fiedler, but nobody in Boston's packed Symphony Hall had expected him to be. For one thing, the Hub's beloved grouch and historic landmark, white-thatched Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 84, was climbing the podium to commence his 50th season as leader of the Boston Pops. More, Fiedler scarcely five months earlier had undergone massive brain surgery. The years and fears showed mainly in the fit of his bib: Fiedler ill had lost so much weight that Wife Ellen insisted on smaller tails from Brooks Brothers. Otherwise, things Pops-wise were...
Spain, like Portugal, has a superlative nationwide network of state-owned inns, called paradores, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. They are mostly in old castles, palaces or monasteries; all have good restaurants serving the specialties of the region and require advance registration. At Alarcon, for example, on the road to Valencia from Madrid, the Parador Marqués de Villena is a 10th century turreted castle, where a lucky visitor may rent a tower bedroom for $22 a night...
Though Marshall's four-bagger gave Harvard its third Eastern League win against one loss, it also served as a unique gift for his father, who had flown in from Chicago that day to celebrate his 50th birthday...
...same 20° N. latitude line as Hong Kong, Mecca, Mexico City and Calcutta, Maui (pop. 54,000) is the second biggest, second youngest (some 15 million years old) of the 132 islands of the 50th and southernmost state. Maui County attracts more visitors than any other of the islands (1,414,867 in 1978, up 12.5% over the previous year). Oahu (Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor) is seriously overbuilt and overcrowded; Hawaii ("the Big Island") is famed for its volcanoes and rugged natural beauty but has few beaches and little action for the tourist; Kauai has great, uncrowded, golden beaches...