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...money out of their pocket?" They must realize it; the press, after all, has been keeping a running tab on the celebration for weeks. The point is, no one especially cares: not about the cost of the wedding-eve fireworks in Hyde Park ($16,000); nor the wedding cake (maybe $6,000); nor the entire jamboree (estimated conservatively at a million dollars...
...Tetbury, Master Thomas Charles Wortley, 5, will entertain local celebrators by re-enacting the wedding with Miss Karen Diana Welch, 9. There will be a wedding cake and toasts to both brides and grooms. Members of the younger set are not quite so cagey with the press as their elders, however, and a friend of the couple confided that Master Wortley thinks Miss Welch "soppy"; Miss Welch, in return, considers her make-believe spouse "an awful brat...
...Chief Petty Officer David Avery, 38, of the Royal Navy; brisk, authoritative and more than a little wary. Avery baked the official wedding cake to be served up to 120 guests at the Buckingham Palace wedding "breakfast" (noon to 4 p.m.). The recipe, he says, "is all in my head. It isn't written down anywhere, you understand. No, I will not give you a single detail." Avery and an assistant, Training Officer Lieutenant Motley, journeyed to the palace six weeks ago to give the bride-to-be an approving peek at their design. The batter had gone into...
...lambast a Wall Street Journal editorial that called on the Reagan Administration to "stop cringing every time Peking throws a tantrum," and give more help to Taiwan. Some Americans, an article by the New China News Agency said, believe that China is "a piece of cake to be sliced as they please...
...violence continued, the mullahs had other problems on their hands. The economy is a disaster. Inflation is running at 60% for consumer goods. Lamb now costs four times what it did under the Shah; a cake of soap sells for $2. Nearly one-third of the nation's labor force of 12 million is unemployed. Some 1.5 million refugees from Afghanistan have crowded into the country, further straining the economy. More than a million educated Iranians have fled since the Islamic revolution. Though Iran's annual income from oil exports is about $11.5 billion, the war with Iraq...