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Through it all, Tony kept a stiff, smiling upper lip. His popularity took a turn for the better when he took an unpaid, five-day-a-week job in a design center, despite his rather nebulous assignment: studying methods of consumer product testing. But the real breakthrough came when Buckingham Palace let Tony present the prizes in a schoolboy photographic contest in London. Delighted to talk on a subject he knew intimately, Tony wrote his own speech, delivered it well. Afterward, reporters and cameramen whom he had known in his single days hesitantly gathered round. He broke royal family precedent...
Hughenden, Buckingham, England...
...mother, stomped the moors of the 4,000-acre family estate with her father, Sir William Worsley, onetime team captain and now president of the county cricket club. And last week the Duke of Kent was all but stuck to the Worsley wicket: he proudly nipped up to Buckingham Palace with his new fiancee for a toast from the Queen to a June wedding...
Unresigned to his fate, Tony Benn mailed his viscountcy patent back to the Lord Chamberlain at Buckingham Palace. Last week he watched from the Commons visitors gallery as Home Secretary "Rab" Butler helpfully proposed that the Committee of Privileges investigate the question of whether Benn's parliamentary privilege had been violated. As a last resort, Benn could still defy the 1678 rule barring peers from Commons by standing for and winning re-election to the House -the device by which Charles Bradlaugh in the late 19th century overturned the rule barring atheists from Commons...
Fandango. No public campus in the country has moved faster in that direction than California's Berkeley, the Buckingham Palace of Clark Kerr's empire, across the bay from San Francisco. Few campuses boast an odder beginning. Berkeley's impecunious parent was a Congregationalist academy launched in 1853 by a Yale clergyman from Massachusetts. The campus was a fandango dance hall, but Founder Henry Durant in a letter home glowed over the "beauty and salubrity" of the place. He hoped to educate gold miners, and believed in looking on the bright side...