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...civil servants about his plans for streamlining the governmental system, Heath presided over a 50-minute Cabinet meeting and pondered the legislative priorities that would become the framework of the Queen's speech at the opening of Parliament this week. Then, at the helm of his sloop Morning Cloud, he competed in a 60-mile race around the Isle of Wight...
...from the Staten Island ferry. Just as our boat passed in front of the Statue of Liberty, two little tugs pushed four barges over laden with trash through the iridescent, oil covered water in front of the Statue. I looked back at Manhattan and saw some awful, mysterious yellow cloud gobbling up most of the buildings in the City. It had already devoured the George Washington Bridge and it was biting off the top of the Empire State Building. New steel towers reared up crane-covered heads along the waterfront, ready to nourish the cloud in their turn...
...Soviet Union last week expelled Correspondent Stanley Cloud, a member of TIME'S Moscow Bureau for nearly a year. Despite repeated inquiries by Time Inc. in both Washington and Moscow, Soviet officials have given no explanation for the ouster, which they accomplished simply by refusing to renew Cloud's visa and accreditation...
...Cloud's expulsion," said Murray Gart, Chief of Correspondents, "is an arbitrary and highly irregular act that violates both the spirit and protocol of normal journalistic relations." Cloud served in the San Francisco bureau before going to Moscow, where he ably reported a wide variety of stories on subjects ranging from Soviet space shots to the policymakers in the Kremlin...
...idea was to whip up some frontpage glamour for Conservative Party Chief Ted Heath, whose poll ratings are lackluster as England's general election nears. Tory flacks alerted the press that Bachelor Heath and a blonde were embarking for a sail aboard his yacht Morning Cloud. But Ted sniffed "Absolute nonsense" to all notions of romance, asserting that the lady was merely his sea cook and sailing companion. Then he ran the Morning Cloud aground on a sand...