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...marriage with Victoria. How the union proceeded forms one of the most entertaining strands in Mrs. Woodham-Smith's book. Victoria had seen him before, but she first fell in love with this blue-and-blond Parsifal in 1839. "It was with some emotion that I beheld Albert-who is beautiful," she observed in her diary. Their correspondence from the beginning was a model of Victorian decorum and devotion ("Never, never did I think I could be loved so much"). Their engagement was long and set about with squabbles over precedence and income that Victoria, as was her custom...
...zone fans as Patriots' Stadium in Foxboro beheld a strange sight last Sunday. The sight was not the Patriots-Bills football game, which was strange enough. Nor was it the Patriots' message board, which advertises everything from the score of the game to Gillette stainless steel blades...
...itself, and would get coldly furious at the blunders of admirals and generals. At a luncheon given by Rivers and attended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the entire civilian hierarchy of the Pentagon and major defense contractors, a guest observed half in awe, half in criticism: "I have beheld the military-industrial complex, and it sits on the right hand of L. Mendel Rivers." Rivers would not have considered that a bad epitaph...
...merrymakers danced off into the night-and now it was the San Francisco police department's turn to be surprised. At 3 a.m. cops answered a call to turn off a noisy hippie party at a pad in Haight-Ashbury, chased the gang up to the rooftops, and beheld Rudi lying prone among the hippies on one roof, Dame Margot tucked away on an adjoining rooftop. That sort of ended the party, except for a trip to the station house, where Rudi screamed "You are all children!" as the photographers came swarming around-then back to work the next...
...President's Analyst. There too, but not in the script, stood Patrolman Melvin Schwartz, an honest-to-goodness member of the New York City Police Department, who had not been informed that they were making a flick on his beat. Patrolman Schwartz's eyes narrowed as he beheld the fleeing Coburn. He gave chase, caught Coburn, beat him around the head and ears with his night stick. Co-Star Godfrey Cambridge doubled up with laughter. "Man," he said, "that's a real cop, and he's going to make lieutenant." Unamused, Coburn called a halt...