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...seaside villa south of Athens to celebrate the 21st birthday of Alexander Onassis, heir apparent to his father's fortunes. Earlier, the soft Aegean wind had carried rumors that Alexander would commemorate his coming of age by defying his father and announce plans to marry New Zealand-born Fiona Thyssen, 36, his frequent companion and 16 years his senior. But Ari is a tough man to defy. When the birthday party moved on to a local bouzouki nightclub, Alexander asked his father, "May I take some whisky?" Aristotle reportedly replied: "Take anything you want-except Fiona...
...several new runs to Hawaii which, as domestic routes, are not subject to presidential review. Under the Johnson decision, Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines stood to grow from the eleventh biggest U.S. trunk line into a sizable international carrier serving such South Pacific spots as Samoa, Australia and New Zealand. Continental's President Bob Six had served the previous Administration by providing extensive-if not always clearly defined-services in Southeast Asia. The line has at various times employed such Democratic stalwarts as Lloyd Hand, Pierre Salinger and Clark Clif ford's law firm. Nixon ordered...
Godfrey Rainbird, a 30-year-old British-born emigrant to New Zealand, is pronounced dead after a traffic accident. His wife prepares to don widow's weeds, his children begin to adjust as orphans, his sister flies from England for the funeral. A monogrammed casket is purchased, a cemetery plot arranged for, But there is no funeral. Thirty-six hours after his "death," Godfrey rises from a deep coma, a little shaky but quite ready to resume his life...
...filet steak Washington, for example, and a kangaroo-skin bush jacket for less formal dishes. He opens with a bit of humor or reminiscence, perhaps h;s somewhat askew impression of Terry-Thomas, perhaps some war stories about his days as chief catering assistant in the New Zealand air force. After that comes some pure kitsch. "Oh, I've got it all running down my chinny-chin-chin," he cries cutely as he savors a leg of lamb. "Oh, you're going to be so impressed with me," he coos as he peers at another of his chefs...
Most African states were seething at British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's efforts to reach a settlement with Ian Smith's breakaway white regime in Rhodesia. Singapore and Malaysia deplored Britain's planned military withdrawal from points east of Suez. Australia and New Zealand were unhappy about London's hankerings to join Europe's Common Market, a move that would cost them dearly in tariff concessions. Four East African members that are anxious to get rid of their Asian minorities (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) were outraged because Britain was not willing to take them...