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Married. George Huntington Hartford II, 51, high-spending A. & P. scion, donor of Manhattan's newest art museum; and Diane Brown. 21, willowy Manhattan model, his constant companion; he for the third time; at Melody Farm, the Hartford family fief in Wyckoff. N.J. Caught unaware as the couple hurried off on their honeymoon, Manhattan papers let on that the new Mrs. Hartford was a coal miner's daughter, but after five days in Vermont she returned to set those "silly stories'' straight. "My dad is an accountant, not a coal miner.'' she said...
Despite what it may look like on the outside, ye olde commonwealth is not a medieval fief which runneth over with ever-loyal subjects of the Kennedy clan [Sept...
...DECENTRALIZATION. More than half of the bishops outside of Italy who responded to the request for agenda items asked that the Curia and the Vatican bureaucracy be made more representative of the church at large, rather than remain a private fief for Italians. The council may also provide more freedom for individual bishops, or national councils of bishops, to handle matters that until now have to be bucked on to Rome. Some Catholic radicals have suggested that the church impose a retirement age for all prelates except the Pope, abolish the medieval vestments, titles and privileges (such as rings that...
...could take the special pride of a son who has succeeded in filling his father's shoes. The jurymen will hear testimony on an election fraud-uncovered by the fighting Nashville Tennessean after the Democratic primary last month. In the city's seamy second ward, a political fief controlled by City Councilman Gene ("Little Evil") Jacobs, Tennessean newsmen turned up documented evidence that dozens of the ward's absentee ballots, which decided the outcome, had been turned over to the organization for marking...
...than they ever hated each other. Both are lumped together by Radio Cairo as "reactionary, feudal, degenerate, corrupt monarchies bleeding the Arab people." Oil-rich Saud has granted some economic aid to poor, refugee-swollen Jordan, and Hussein has become a frequent visitor to Saud's vast, anachronistic fief...