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...seem to care whether anybody liked him personally or not. He had little to bargain with except the hopes he himself had aroused by pledging his troth to Western European Union in London. Now, with all the invitations issued, the guests on hand, the church bells pealing and the altar in sight, he was using that hope as a lever, threatening to balk unless he got his way on just one little matter...
Above the high altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth, in Yorkshire, hung a man. He was holding on precariously to the foot of the crucifix, while a voice said: "Amplexus expecta [Cling and wait...
...factors, including cartels and building programs, obviously not by the ECSC alone. Nor are the loans to the Coal and Steel Community spent solely to produce coal digging machines. The issue here is that is fearing slight damage to coal exporters, the Senate Committee has sacrificed ECSC on the altar of domestic pressure. Because the fortunes of the U.S. are so bound with those of a strong Europe, the Senate must view home issues in the perspective of its foreign commitments...
...last week, the knight was back at the sprite's side and married her without fatal consequences in Bürgenstock's miniature mountainside chapel. In Ferrer, 37, Audrey had her first husband. In Audrey, 25. Ferrer, whose knightly charms have led to some confusion at the altar in the past, had a fourth marriage and third wife; he had four children (Pepa, 13, Mark, 10, by wife No. 1; Mela, 12, Christopher, 11, by wife No. 2), remarried wife No. 1, who divorced him last December in Juárez. Friends and relatives wished the newlyweds well...
...Gough finally said "I do" after a wedding day in which 1) Dennis forgot to pick up the license, 2) Pastor Lonnie Smith became ill, 3) the bride's brother failed to arrive, 4) the air conditioning blew out the church candles, 5) Dennis, waiting at the altar, discovered he had misplaced the ring...