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...small pages clad in naval costumes. The eldest, Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips, 8, did a game job of managing both his troops and the bride's train, but the show stealer was Prince William, 4. During the 45-minute ceremony, he played on the cord of his hat like a fakir's apprentice, wrapping the string around his nose and chewing it like a licorice stick. Undaunted by baleful stares from his mother and grandmother, he pulled out his miniature ceremonial dagger and began poking holes in the dress of Diana's niece Laura Fellowes, 6. When...
...This was a three-year-old effort to intercept drug smugglers on ships and in aircraft. U.S. military maneuvers in the Caribbean are often used to target suspected drug smugglers, tracking them until civilian police or the Coast Guard can make an arrest. In one such sweep, the 1985 "Hat Trick I" operation, some $27 million worth of drugs was confiscated...
...dramatics at Stanford University lasted three years. "Every day was a happening," she says. "I wore an elf costume -- red pantaloons, vest and hat, all festooned with blue pompons -- and lived with my boyfriend in a tree house, dining on vegetables we stole from the experimental garden. One day, for a linguistics presentation, we threw pies at each other, then tossed tiny parachutes at the other class members. The professor gave us both A's." And now in May '68, here is La Pasionaria Sigourney, set to exhort the students with quotations from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book...
...removed from the cunning and knavishness of modern man." By the early 18th century, a Swiss visitor to England noted a decline in hospitality: "When the people see a well-dressed person in the streets, especially if he is wearing a braided coat, a plume in his hat, or his hair tied in a bow, he will, without doubt, be called 'French dog' 20 times perhaps before he reaches his destination...
...institution will fail to come up with enough funds to encourage the kind of policy changes needed for long-term Third World growth. Warns Lawrence Brainard, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "Barber Conable will not be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat to solve the debt crisis...