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"The countries that I like best don't have diplomatic relations with the U.S.," said Eldridge Cleaver four years ago, after leaving Cuba for Algeria. Still on the lam for breaking parole, the ex-information minister for the Black Panthers has decided that he would like to live in France, and has twice requested political asylum there. Minister of the Interior Raymond Marcellin has twice turned him down on the ground that Cleaver did not require asylum, "which implies that life or liberty is menaced."
"This is a nonpolitical trip, as you can tell, just like Alabama was," Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, 41, told the reception committee at the Salt Lake City International Airport. Kennedy was joining California's Democratic Senator John Tunney, 39, and Representatives William J. Green, 35, of Pennsylvania, and Wayne Owens, 36, of Utah, for a rafting expedition down the Colorado River. Each had invited a son: Ted Kennedy Jr., 11; Teddy Tunney, 12; Billy Green, 8; and Doug Owens, 10. The octet successfully jumped twelve major rapids on their six-hour trip between Westwater and Cisco in eastern Utah. Teddy Jr. told reporters that he hoped to go into politics, a remark treated with good-natured skepticism by his father, who asked: "If he can't find his way through here, what would he do when he gets to Washington?"
Not all the Americans traveling in Europe were complaining about the shriveling dollar. "I've been living as cavalierly as usual," admitted Director Peter Bogdanovich, who was camping out at the Grand Hotel in Rome while scouting locations for a movie of the Henry James novel Daisy Miller. He and his girl friend Cybill Shepherd (who will play Daisy) did notice that a single scoop of the famous ice cream in the Piazza Navona had doubled in price within a year, to 200 lire (35¢).
Jackie Onassis was not feeling the pinch either. She arrived on Capri wearing last year's sandals and at once toured half a dozen shoe stores. After she had picked out ten pairs of shoes and sandals, a secretary came by to pay the bill.
It would be "the Libber v. the Lobber," said Tennis Hustler Bobby Riggs, 55, announcing that he would play Wimbledon Champion Billie Jean King, 29, after Labor Day. Riggs, who roundly defeated Margaret Court last May, said he had taken 400 vitamin pills before that match. Last week Ms. King suggested that he had "better start taking twice as many vitamins. I'm not Margaret Court," said Ms. King. "She couldn't handle the pressure." There will be even more pressure on Billie Jean since she and Bobby will be playing for the largest purse ever put up for a tennis match—$100,000—with an extra $100,000 going to the winner from TV, radio and film rights.