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...London newspaper described it as "a mad final fling before the winter of our discontent." For one brief shining moment last week, Britain forgot its economic troubles and basked in the splendid and stirring pageantry of a royal wedding. Before 1,500 invited guests and a television audience of 500 million people round the world, Princess Anne, 23, Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, married her commoner cavalryman, Captain Mark Phillips, 25, in the Gothic splendor of Westminster Abbey...
Last week, the State Department announced that Secretary Henry A. Kissinger '50, was forced to postpone this year's fling to the People's Republic of China because of pressing needs for his expertise in resolving the Mideast war and, by corollary, preserving the U.S.-Soviet detente...
...never done anything that wasn't academic, anything that smacked of frivolity," she said. "I didn't feel that raising money for the BSO was a weighty project. But it was exciting to do something nobody had done before. It made me feel good when I could fling myself into something and see the results...
...will be a while before Myra Mayman can safely "fling" herself into her present job even though people expect action from her immediately. She says that she does not want to be badgered into purely administrative work, but as yet she has seen few of the undergraduates who are supposed to be her primary concern. She cannot avoid the controversial debate that has surrounded the role of the arts at Harvard for decades. And in order to sort out all of its intricacies, Mayman will undoubtedly have to draw on her varied experience as well as on her enthusiasm...
...Hyatt's excitement is inside the building. Whenever rock groups are in residence, flocks of pubescent groupies fling themselves against the smudged glass doors, seeking a way to infiltrate the building. Says Security Chief Wells: "We have to be on constant alert for them, moving all the time, sometimes tracking them by smell, since they all have the odor of burning rope...