Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While it was the wedding of the century ["Magic in the Daylight," Aug. 3], it was more than a ceremony. It was a healthy display of the monarchy. As an American, I still find royalty's mystery captivating and its majesty enchanting...
...must not let in daylight upon magic." This wedding on the cusp of high noon, in front of a world short on ritual and parched for romance, is in fact one grand pass of the royal wand, a masterly and pricey piece of prestidigitation in which, at once, the old values are upheld, the future is assured and everyone can be queen...
According to the FBI, Cooke walked into the Soviet embassy three times in broad daylight - twice last December and once in May. An FBI camera caught him on one of the December visits, but agents were unable to identify him until March. The FBI then alerted the Air Force security branch, which arrested Cooke after his May contact with the Soviets. His Air Force superiors evidently reasoned that it was less important to punish him than to find out what, if any, secrets he had divulged. So they offered him immunity from prosecution in return for his full story...
...President Jimmy Carter, 56, took time off to write a letter to some 500 ex-Administration staffers, giving them a folksy follow-up to his Oval Office days. "I am settling into a fairly regular routine," he writes, "rising quite early, working at the remarkable word-processing machine until daylight, running two or three miles and later during the day continuing to work on the book several hours." The down-home updater also includes domestic news. Rosalynn, 53, "has almost gotten our home liveable and will soon begin her own book." Chip, 31, "is taking care of our farms...
...this which prompts her to goto the movies. In the warm, popcorn-smelling dark of a movie theater her mission is always real. An auto da fe at the entrance to the Harvard MTA station seems not out of the question. All that stands between her and sainthood is daylight...