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...outfit of red and green-the colors of the Welsh flag-Diana responded warmly to the cheering crowds in Rhyl. At one point, the tiny voice of Simon Edwin, 7, caught her ear. "My dad says give us a kiss," said Simon. "Well then," Diana replied, bending forward, "you had better let me have one." Further on, the princess spotted Joanne Edwards, 8, crippled by spina bifida. "Do you want a hug?" she asked the young girl. Whispered Joanne: "Oh yes, please." Diana lifted her out of her wheelchair and kissed her softly...
...young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair stood at attention as each one's national anthem was played and howitzers blasted an ear-splitting salute...
...with its 730,000 circulation, has to appeal not only to its most intelligent readers but to "quite different people-the old mass- vs.-class editor's problem." But mass vs. class makes a poor defense in the case of the Post's gossip column called the "Ear," which ran in the Washington Star until that paper folded last August. It is so full of innuendo, knowledgeable references to a lot of people who are not household names and condescending intimacy toward the well-known that the masses would need a decoder to follow...
...hits some easy targets, but easy targets are often the largest ones, and hence worth hitting. For the most part, the short sketches are better than the long sketches, and the sketches in general better than the poems. But in one of his verses, "Soliloquy of Times Square," his ear--his feel for the way people think--appears, and magnificently...
When the Washington Post's "Ear" column passed along a rumor two weeks ago that the Reagans' guest quarters in Washington had been bugged just before last January's Inauguration, an outraged Jimmy Carter demanded a retraction and threatened a libel suit. Last week the Post responded in print, with an editorial that may have set a new standard for journalistic sophistry. "There are a lot of 'we's' at the Washington Post," it began, "but the one you are about to hear from comes about as close as you can get to being...