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...Filipinos were on hand to enact earnest welcoming playlets, sing, dance or pose as "tribesmen" in outdated garb. During one motorcade, a phalanx of trained water buffalo knelt in reverence just as the pontifical car swept by, while at another point a beaming bride and groom in a mock wedding paused in mid-ceremony to wave to the Pope from a bamboo roadside chapel...
...barre for Ronald P. Reagan, 22, a Joffrey II dancer, who has been rooming for more than a year with Doria Palmieri, 29, a California-born literary researcher. The impromptu wedding, attended by one friend and a Secret Service agent, "seemed like the right thing to do," said the groom. He informed the elder Reagans a few hours before, but, he explained, "I didn't ask my parents to attend because they're real busy now." The next Reagan wedding may be more elaborate. Maureen Reagan-the President-elect's twice-divorced daughter by Actress Jane Wyman...
...member of the wedding party is speculating about how large a step his friend the groom has taken that...
...instance, undertook to photograph "all the dear servants at Petworth, 1860, when I came there." They include the butler, the underbutler, the park keeper, the keeper of the stallions, the coachman, the housekeeper. Lord Leconfield's valet, Lady Leconfield's maid, the French cook, the first groom of the chambers, and so on. Big houses often had as many as 50 people working downstairs. Yet strange as it may appear to the modern eye, the servants have the same look of calm self-assurance as the masters: if the castes exchanged clothes, it would be impossible to tell...
...since 1954. Most Coca-Cola watchers assumed that it would be a while before he would be declared the successor of Austin. At 65, Austin had been Coke's chief for 14 years and had already had his retirement postponed for a year, evidently to allow time to groom a successor. But last week Austin sprang a surprise: much earlier than expected, he announced that when his retirement came at the end of February, his job would go to Goizueta, who will be the first Coca-Cola chief to rise to the top from the technical side...