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Early this summer, Princess Margaret told her sister, the Queen, that she wanted to marry the airman. Soon afterward, Elizabeth II began to sound out her ministers on the possibility of amending the Regency Act in such a way as to ease the restrictions on Margaret's marriage.* Meanwhile, the true state of the young princess' heart remained a family secret. Last June, when U.S. newsmen descended on London for the coronation, the secret popped out with a bang in the tabloid New York Daily News...
While the young kings appeared before cheering crowds together, their Premiers were hard at work, hammering out the principles of a new economic pact. Afterward, officials said that they had reached "full agreement" on all the major financial, economic and trade problems they discussed. Visas might be abolished, customs barriers might come down...
...testimony went on, Carroll Reece slipped out to take a telephone call from G.O.P. Patronage Boss Leonard Hall, chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was back a few minutes later, and not long afterward. Chairman Allen got a scribbled message from another Congressman who had been on the phone. It read: "Len Hall says Carroll's all right." Virginia's Howard Smith, the senior Democrat on the Rules Committee, leaned over to Allen. "Leo," Smith whispered, "you got the votes?" Leo nodded. Shortly afterward Allen cleared the room for the vote. On a voice vote...
Busman's Honeymoon. In Atlanta, Bus Driver Robert Allen, admittedly "bashful" at the thought of a church wedding, married Rachel Chiz in a parked bus, afterward took his bride on a triumphant spin through town...
...Washington, Judge Holtzoff sentenced Kurt Ponger to five to 15 years in prison, and his brother-in-law Otto Verber to 3⅓ to ten years, for spying for the Russians. The two Austrian-born ex-G.I.s, both U.S. citizens, were arrested in Vienna last January. Soon afterward they pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to collect and deliver U.S. defense secrets to the Russians...