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...Radio City, Lassie is not only onscreen but also onstage four times a day. She and her trainer and groom share a $380-a-day suite at the Plaza Hotel, and a Pinkerton detective protects her from unfriendly Dobermans and Great Danes and overly friendly Shih Tzus and Lhasa Apsos. He cannot protect her from the law, however. In Central Park last week, a policeman came up and ordered Bob Weatherwax, the son of her famous trainer, Rudd, to put her on a leash. "This dog never wears a leash," protested Weatherwax. "This is Lassie!" Responded the cop: "Right...
...short, simple and cheap." It cost $2.15. The couple pulled up to a Moscow "wedding palace" in a battered, lemon-yellow Chevy Nova lent by a Greek diplomat. As a piano and string quartet played Mendelssohn's Wedding March, they entered a dark-paneled chamber. The bride and groom promised Klara Remeshkova, the equivalent of a justice of the peace, that they would preserve their love for all their lives, be faithful and loyal and stand together in love and sorrow...
...assistant, a maid of honor and the best man were waiting in her apartment near Boston to attend the wedding rehearsal. When the bridegroom, Kenneth Levitt, 25, failed to show, Christine phoned his parents' home and was told, "Ken just left." But hours later, with the wayward groom still missing, Christine says, Ken's parents told her that their son had gone off to consider whether he should back out of the marriage...
...banners across the winding Amman streets. The wedding of Jordan's King Hussein and Nur el Hussein (Light of Hussein), nee Elizabeth Halaby in Washington, was a quiet family affair. In a four-minute Muslim ceremony at the palace of Hussein's mother, the blue-suited groom, 42, and his Dior-and-diamond-bedecked bride, 26, exchanged vows in Arabic. Those present, all male according to Islamic practice, included Lisa's father, former Pan Am Chief Najeeb Halaby...
...typically earthy metaphors, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell last week likened the reporters trailing Bert Lance to a group of over-adrenalized bird dogs. "You feed 'em and groom 'em and exercise 'em for six months," said Powell. "And then you finally turn 'em loose and they piss all over the truck and bite roots and eat butterflies. They go crazy...