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...Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, Actor Michael Wilding, married Beth Clutter, 19. Outside London's Caxton Hall Registry, a crowd of 500 gathered to goggle at the groom's mum (in white wool pants and a rink-sized diamond) and her husband, Richard Burton (in business suit and a new slim, "off-the-sauce" look). No wedding reception, no honeymoon. "Too old-fashioned," explained a p.r. man. "These are a couple of mod kids...
...voted for the military appropriations bill containing ABM. She first voted for the appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but voted against it after President Nixon vetoed it, deciding finally that it was inflationary. Claiming to be a progressive, she also voted against the Hill-Burton hospital construction bill. Where Yaffe favors setting a fixed date for withdrawal from Vietnam, she opposes this, saying of the Nixon Vietnamization plan, "it was the only choice he had at the time...
That Richard Burton would have been a great Shakespearean actor had he not married Elizabeth Taylor...
...author, Burton R. Tauber, 35, took time out last spring from his Wall Street law practice-which often involved preparation of prospectuses-to do some volunteer antiwar lobbying in Washington. He felt that he got nowhere. In order to relieve his frustration, he began dictating a prospectus for "The War in Viet Nam" ("hereinafter referred to as 'the Company' "). He got about one-third of the way through before his secretary realized that it was a parody. No wonder; Tauber has reproduced both the form and the stilted legalese of a genuine prospectus, and the euphemistic circumlocutions peculiar...
...been featured together, led by Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, who were pictured twice. Jacqueline Kennedy was a solo cover subject as First Lady, and also with Husas First Lady, and also with Husbands John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis. Some other famous pairs were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Luci Baines Johnson and Pat Nugent, and Lynn Fontanne with Alfred Lunt...