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Sunburned and smiling. Queen Elizabeth arrived at the port of Darwin in Australia's remote Northern Territory, clearly enjoyed an easygoing interlude in her Commonwealth tour Down Under. At a luncheon aboard the royal yacht Britannia, Elizabeth and Philip entertained 20 guests, among them a full-blooded aboriginal from the local Rights Council, who departed happily with his souvenir menu but wanted to know just one thing: "What was that stuff that looked like water but didn't taste like it?'' That stuff, someone explained, was a martini.
That winsome Miss America of 1961, Nancy Anne Fleming, 20, became Mrs. William Johnson at a formal ceremony in East Lansing, where both are students at Michigan State. With members of the press barred from the chapel, much-photographed Nancy seemed to be putting all that behind her.,but even the photographers stopped griping when she emerged, radiant, on the arm of her groom.
Ill lay: Lord Home, 59, British Foreign Secretary, downed by gastric flu, canceling all engagements prior to scheduled departure for Japan, at his London home; Indonesia's President Achmed Sukarno, 62, "maintaining routine vigilance'' after treatment of kidney ailment by specialists from Peking, in Djakarta; Burt Lancaster, 49, 1963 Oscar nominee, with infectious hepatitis, at home in Hollywood; Edward J. ("Knocko") McCormack, 69, freewheeling Boston Democratic leader and brother of House Speaker John W. McCormack, recuperating from cancer surgery, at Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
A silent spring crept over London, right into the House of Lords, where they were debating the dangers of pesticides and toxic chemicals. In the U.S., declared Lord Douglas of Barloch, practically every meal contained some DDT. Labor Peer Lord Edward Shackleton, 51, son of famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, couldn't have agreed more. Why, there was a cannibal in Polynesia, said he, "who no longer allows his tribe to eat Americans. Their fat is contaminated. We have about two parts per million of DDT in our bodies, Americans about eleven parts per million." His Lordship's conclusion: "We are rather more edible."
To the bedside of Princess, Michiko, 28, in the Imperial Household/Hospital came Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, 29, bearing a potted vermilion orchid, her favorite flower. The occasion was not a happy one. For reasons of health, said Palace spokesmen, "at signs of impending miscarriage," the Princess had been surgically aborted by her physicians.