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Toward noon of a soft London day last week, Westminster Abbey glowed as richly as a Renaissance painting. From the banner-draped high altar to the flower-banked west door, the great Gothic nave was adazzle with tinted plumes and winking tiaras. Packed into rows of rented wooden chairs, the 2,000 waiting guests put their best profiles forward for the 30 TV cameras covering the abbey. At 12:02, two minutes behind schedule, a trumpet fanfare sounded from the rafters, the organ thundered Holy, Holy, Holy, and the bridal procession started its stately advance up the blue-carpeted aisle...
Standing under a banner marked CANADA: A POWER, NOT A PUPPET, a dignified rage in his deep-set blue eyes, Diefenbaker would declare: "There are interests against me, powerful interests." He had the Prairie Provinces solidly behind him, thanks to the Tories' $425.6 million wheat sales to Red China. To the farmers, the fact that the eastern financial and industrial interests, the big-city vote and all major Conservative newspapers but two were against him, made his candidacy only the more gallant...
...April day in 963, Count Sigfroi, a Wagnerian warrior from the Ardennes, raised his banner over a fortress on a formidable rock above the Alzette River in the eastern Frankish empire. Though Sigfroi's wife soon vanished-she turned out to be a water nymph-and his fortress crumbled, the fief he founded proved as durable as it is diminutive. It is formally known today as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and, though international surveys often omit its statistics entirely, it is a thriving charter member of the European Coal and Steel Community and the Common Market, as well...
They soon found out. Convinced that he could only achieve national leadership at the head of a multiracial united front, Abdul Rahman muted hotly anti-Chinese sentiment in his own Malay party, stumped the country urging Chinese and Indian leaders to unite behind him under the banner of a new organization called the Alliance Party. To finance his crusade, he sold his expensive cars and most of his other property. "I worked like mad, living andy sleeping on trains," says the Tunku. "I was often home only one day a month." But Abdul Rahman's zeal paid...
Raising the Flag. It all began peacefully enough with a banner-waving parade toward Westminster,, where workers' leaders were determined to carry personal protests to their M.P.s. Awkwardly at first, many fingering the cloth caps that are the traditional badge of the British workingman, they stood talking until the House of Commons' big Central Lobby was jammed, while a surging mob of workers still outside jostled impatiently to get through St. Stephen's doorway...