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...travel and resort business puts on special promotions for the singles. There is the beach or travel party club-a solution to traveling alone-such as the Club Mediterranee, which has built a 500,000-member clientele in Europe and is successfully offering equal opportunities to Americans. The Mediterranee's basic gimmick for togetherness is that you always sit at a table for eight-but you can change tables for any meal. This spring Hilton Hotels launched a special tour to Puerto Rico aimed at the singles market: "What can you expect for $133 on your Hilton Swingles Week...
...their Israeli conquerors, to whom true peace seems as distant as ever. Jordanian and Egyptian troops fired on Israeli border positions five times last week. During one skirmish at the mouth of the Suez Canal, the irritated Israelis finally wheeled up tanks and mortars and bombarded the Egyptian resort town of Port Tewfic, killing 44 and wounding 170 others. Two days later, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol flew to the Suez battlefront and told his troops that "we must be on our guard and hold the positions and frontiers that our forces have reached." Said Eshkol bluntly, "There is no better...
...last resort, some desperate parents invade hippie country in personal searches for their wayward kids. One New Yorker finally located his 20-year-old son after days of scouring the Hashbury on foot. "Barry came down looking stunned," the father recalls. "It was touching and painful, harder for him, I guess, than for me. It took him ten or 15 minutes just to get back into his face." The reunion lasted only long enough for a short trip to Big Sur. Then Barry went back to Hashbury...
...efforts to recruit, train, and hire the hard-core unemployed. When the private sector is unable to provide employment to those who are both able and willing to work, then in a free society the government must of necessity assume the responsibility and act as the employer of last resort or must assure adequate income levels...
...their fierce reputation, Colonel Jean ("Black Jack") Schramme and his band of white mercenaries are beginning to look a lot less tall. Not that the Congolese army is cutting them down to size; the swaggering "meres" could probably hang on for a while at Bukavu, the old resort town on the Congo's eastern frontier where they holed up three weeks ago. President Joseph Mobutu's regulars are bothering them so little that the only raiding that the mercenaries have been doing has been in Bukavu's abandoned wine cellars...