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...wearing armbands of mourning. The Sadler's Wells Ballet Company called off its scheduled trip to Moscow. "Gabriel," chief political cartoonist of the London Daily Worker for 20 years, quit in disgust. The Oxford University Communist Club met and voted unanimously to dissolve. At a diplomatic party at Buckingham Palace, the Queen nodded stiffly to Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik and moved on without a word, followed by an equally rigid and unsmiling Queen Mother and Princess Margaret...
...began closing in, Britain embarked on an autumn grousing season, picked as its first target a member of the royal family. The victim: bonnie Prince Charles, 7, fresh back in Buckingham Palace after a long Scottish holiday. The question, quickly debated by irritable newspaper readers: Assuming that Charles has a brow, is it high, middle or low? Noting that on his return "the prince's hair was even closer to his eyebrows than usual," London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed...
Britain's most loyal ally in the Middle East, Iraq's young (21) King Feisal II, jubilantly showed up at Buckingham Palace for a state visit to a power behind his throne. Flanked by his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, little Feisal posed for an official photograph, looking delighted as a 21-year-old with his gleaming white uniform, the attention he was getting and the company he was keeping-the Duke of Edinburgh (caparisoned as an Admiral of the Fleet) and Queen Elizabeth II, a crownless standout amidst the profusion of feathers, ribbons, tassels and gold braid...
This year it will open its continental concert series with a performance for the Holland Festival at the Hague, then will sing in Belgium and Paris. Concerts are also arranged for Tours and Orleans in France, Siena and Perugia in Italy, Freiburg and Munich in Germany, Cambridge and Buckingham in England...
Next day, as another undemonstrative crowd watched B. & K. enter Buckingham Palace "to sign the book" (the royal family was away at Windsor), police jumped on a small boy with a toy air rifle, hustled him away. At the Soviet embassy luncheon, over vodka and caviar, Khrushchev made an appeal to British reasonableness: "Both in the Conservative Party and in the ranks of the Opposition there are those who are in favor and those who are against our visit. We regard such a situation as natural, and it does not embarrass us." Khrushchev softly pleaded for peaceful coexistence: "As people...