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...feel that an American citizen should not bow to foreign monarchs," wrote Martha Mitchell in the Ladles' Home Journal, explaining her own stiff-legged presentation to Queen Elizabeth II at a garden party last July. Protocol-wise, curtsying is optional for non-subjects, but Scotland's 70-year-old Earl of Lindsay, a member of the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, was fit to be tied. He fired off a letter to Martha ("I take it that it is your considered opinion that I should remain seated during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner...
...like a friendly monarch. Sills strides onto a stage bobbing her head and grinning, like an elegant shepherdess. Where Sutherland sails into a fast aria with grand nonchalance, Sills is likely to bounce up and down with infectious self-enjoyment. Sutherland usually finishes with a smile and a regal bow, Sills with a somewhat defiant toss of her head as if to say: "There! Top that!" So far, nobody has been able to top either of them...
HISTORY and the men who record it have always intimidated Lyndon B. Johnson. His book, The Vantage Point, is a nervous bow to the Harvard faculty, and thus not very Johnsonian. The next one should be for us; a thunderous account of this incredible man's 40 years in or near the center of power. That book is bottled up in him, and the problem is getting it out in its pure state...
...eventually drove them into the remote hills of Kiangsi. From that day to this, the two have been at war. In 1936, when Chiang was kidnaped by a group of Nationalist officers who wanted to stop the anti-Communist campaign and unite against the Japanese invaders, he refused to bow. "If you want to shoot me," he said, "do so at once." He was finally released at the behest of a young Communist, Chou Enlai...
...leadership." Italy looks to London as a guarantor of the democratic process within the Community and a counterweight against dominance by France and Germany. The West Germans hope that the British will help impose more effective parliamentary controls on the Eurocrats. The Benelux countries, having frequently been forced to bow to the demands of the Continent's Big Two, are also expected to look to Britain for counsel. So are Denmark and Norway, whose economies are so closely tied to Britain's that they have little choice but to follow her into the Community. Not that Prince Charles...