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Nicole's story: 250 wedding guests assemble at the church. The bride arrives in her bridal radiance. The appointed hour. No groom. Hmmm. Buzz, buzz. Time passes. Still no groom. Fidget and buzz. Guests swivel in their pews to scan the back of the church, in mounting alarm. At last, the best man--looking grim, dressed in street clothes, not formal wedding regalia--appears and reports that, Sorry, the groom has decided he cannot go through with it. Shock, tears, consternation--The Philadelphia Story upside down, or turned sideways, anyhow...
...Workers at the top-secret Air Force base near Groom Lake were squaring off against the government in court Wednesday in a lawsuit over incidents involving hazardous chemicals ? incidents in which two workers have already died. But President Clinton, claiming executive privilege, has issued an executive order to withhold evidence in the case ? as Commander in Chief, he's worried about top secret information getting vetted in public court...
Villegas was the son of an Argentine farmhand who was a groom in his native country before entering the U.S. eight years ago. After playing in Florida and Texas, he became one of five Argentines on the 39-member Warrenton-area polo team. The dashing "Argies" routinely attract adoring female groupies, and the relationship between the sexy polo pro and the shy heiress was nothing unusual. Villegas and Cummings met two years ago at the Willow Run Polo school, a magnet for the Argentine players, many of whom are boarded on farms owned by the people they call their patrones...
...York City's summer playground. Most media outlets, in recognition of the danger in which her marital state places the new MRS. RUSHDIE, are simply calling her Elizabeth. It's The Satanic Verses author's third stab at marriage, which puts him a few lengths behind another recent secret groom, LARRY KING, who got married for the seventh time in a private ceremony last week, three days before he was scheduled to undergo angioplasty to clear a blocked blood vessel. The wedding, which was originally to be a gala, star-studded affair, was held a day early because...
...having twice demonstrated his inability to groom a successor, Allen is now part of the problem. "Bob Allen is a caretaker when the company needs a visionary," says Scott Cleland of the Legg Mason Precursor Group. "The company has lost a year and a half in setting the direction for the next millennium...