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...major event of the day was a rally at Boston's Commonwealth Armory. The rally attracted 6000 people who paid $25 to hear McGovern and Kennedy strongly attack the Nixon Administration...
...aristocracy, says it was all a mistake. The rules of British heraldry permit a wife to take her title from her husband, and since Edward remained a Royal Highness after his abdication, the duchess should have been called Her Royal Highness. "It is doubtful how knowledgeable the British and Commonwealth ministers of the crown were on [this] constitutional and legal issue," commented Montague-Smith...
Contours of the Kennedy Center are somewhat more cloudy. About two acres of the 11-acre site will be given to Harvard for the Kennedy School of Government. A large plaza, called Commonwealth Plaza in appreciation of Massachusetts's grant of the MBTA land, will extend over much of the area. Open all parking for at least 600 cars, and more probably 1000, will be provided by the Library. The ceremonial entrance to the Center will stand at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston...
...does not try to plug these themes into today's headlines for a cheap jolt of relevance. Jimmie's tale is played out against a background of incidental chatter and speculation about Australian federation, which in 1900 united the continent's six major colonies into a commonwealth. In the end the reader sees that this is not the background, but the whole point. The tragic contradictions in Jimmie's life are in fact the unresolved agonies out of which a nation is to be created...
...behalf. County Court Judge John A. MacPhail recently turned Creamer down, however, ruling that "historical Gettysburg has already been raped," and also noting that an Interior Department agreement with Ottenstein implied approval -a contention the department now denies. Creamer is moving the conflict this week to the Commonwealth Court, the state's intermediate appeals court. Ottenstein remains confident, adding: "As long as the laws tell me I'm right, I see no reason why I can't build the tower...