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...announced, but send a gift. The Rev. Ian Paisley, an Orangeman of the deepest hue, was dismayed that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, had been asked to say a prayer during the ceremony, and made his displeasure known in a rhetorical thunderbolt: "May God bless the Prince and his bride-to-be, but may God deliver the House of Windsor from the conspiracy of Rome to subvert the Protestant monarchy...
From President and Mrs. Reagan in the U.S., a Steuben glass bowl christened 'The Crusaders'! From the village of Doughton, bless 'em all, a sheet-iron weather vane for Highgrove! From the far-off land of Tonga, a bedspread, presented by-I want to get this name right-King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV and his wife, Queen Mata'aho, and hand-knitted by the Queen herself; let's have a round of applause for them both! From the Sedgemoor district council in Somerset - how about this? - a ton of peat! A nickel-silvered...
...many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone in the decades ahead. Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, "God bless the Prince and Princess of Wales." -By Malcolm Muggeridge
...bless Senator Jeremiah Denton [June 8]. If I live to be 100, I will never forget the pride I felt when he stepped off that plane from Viet Nam and kissed the American soil. Oldfashioned? Maybe. But patriotism will never die so long as there are men like Senator Denton to pass on their deep convictions...
REMEMBER BACK IN junior high school, there was always one kid who used to drive the teacher crazy? That's right, the Class Clown--the kid who could belch all the words to "God Bless America" on a single breath, who could pick it and flick it with one hand, the kid who knew the lines to every Three Stooges movie ever made. And when the teacher would tell him to "quiet down," and accuse him of acting like a two-year-old, he would always come up with something like "I resemble that remark! (nook nook nook...