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London tossed restlessly through a cold, damp night. Hours before dawn, thousands packed the route between Buckingham Palace and the Abbey and strung along the five-mile return route. Chill showers drenched them. As they waited for daylight and a glimpse of history, they squirmed under umbrellas, mackintoshes, soggy blankets and newspapers. "Mad, that's what we are," said one woman to another. "But there's thousands like...
...same as everyday, except for a small bouquet of fresh flowers and a note: "With every possible good wish today and always. From Mac and Smith"-her personal maids. For the moment, the handmaidens ruled the Queen. Her beauty expert applied make-up specially concocted for its versatility in daylight or Abbey shadows, or under TV klieg lights-"a peach-tinted liquid foundation, a touch of red-blue powder rouge . . ." The coronation gown, bejeweled and embroidered white satin, swished softly. On top of it went the crimson parliamentary robe to be worn to the Abbey. The Duke of Edinburgh, blond...
...Signed bills 1) extending rent controls until July 31, and 2) authorizing daylight saving time for the District of Columbia each summer at the discretion of the district commissioners-thus putting an end to the annual wrangles in Congress over the District's daylight time...
...Murder. On the day before he went on the air, Evans (as well as Actors Barry Jones, Neva Patterson and Francis Bethencourt, all of whom are in Broadway plays) had to act in a matinee and evening performance, lost an hour's sleep with the change to daylight saving time, and then began the final Hamlet rehearsals...
Tautest sequence: the circus' climactic race across the guarded border in broad daylight. Under the guise of giving a parade, the whole ramshackle outfit tumbles past police watchtowers and barbed wire barricades in a helter-skelter jumble of sentry gunfire, jugglers, acrobats, clowns, performing dogs, ponies, elephants and lumbering circus wagons. At this point, the picture takes on a movingly nightmarish quality...