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Britons were honoring Kennedy for more than mere kinship. Runnymede, the "birthplace of constitutional government," is where King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215. Harold Wilson eulogized Kennedy for his struggle on behalf of "human dignity and equality." Said Jackie, in a message of thanks: "My husband had the greatest affection for the British people and what you represent around the world. One day my children will realize what it means to have their father honored at Runnymede...
...dancing at 5 a.m. But for Jackie, the pleasures of private relaxation can never be wholly separated from the imperatives of public duty. This month she will fly to England to help Queen Elizabeth dedicate a memorial to her late husband at Runnymede, where King John accepted the Magna Carta...
...Nikolai Gogol. When the Stanislavsky-directed Moscow Art Theater last appeared in New York in 1924, it was the apostle of a new dramatic naturalism bent on depicting man with all his mental warts, body aches and soul pains. For U.S. actors it was a kind of Magna Carta, freeing them from stilted and artificial stage conventions. In more recent years, the Stanislavsky Method has suffered the old age of any revolution, which is to become a religion. The esthetic irony of the Moscow troupe's reappearance on the Broadway scene is that 41 years have effected a reversal...
...parties in 16 of Latin America's 20 countries-all except Honduras, Paraguay, Haiti and Cuba. Like their powerful European counterparts in Italy and Germany, the Latin American parties base their philosophy on the 73-year-old Rerum Novarum encyclical of Pope Leo XIII-the so-called "Magna Carta of Labor," which advocates labor unions and worker profit-sharing...
...first John F. Kennedy half-dollars appeared. The new 500 piece (it replaces the Benjamin Franklin coin of 1948 mintage) was such a sellout that banks were forced to ration first-day collectors. Britain's government announced meanwhile that an acre of historic Runnymede, where Magna Carta was signed in 1215, will be given in perpetuity to the U.S. as a memorial to the late President; a simple stone plinth will be placed...