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Leading the parade of pared-down regiments: the royal household's elite Life Guards, which sprang up in 1659 to restore Charles II to the throne; and the Blues and Royals, whose origins go back to the early empire. Scotland will see four famous regiments fused into two. The Queen's Own Highlanders and the Gordon Highlanders will be united, and two Lowland units, the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the Royal Scots, will be merged. Sir John Chapple, Chief of the General Staff, tried to put the best face on the situation. "Our objective will be an army...
...speaker is not DeLillo but his main character, Bill Gray, 63, a famously reclusive writer a la Salinger, Pynchon or B. Traven who lives in a rural hideaway somewhere within a 200-mile radius of New York City. Bill's household also includes Scott, his devoted fan, secretary, factotum and nanny; and ; Karen, a refugee from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church who once took part in an arranged group marriage of 6,500 couples...
...Joined such household names as Sony and Pepsi as a main sponsor of Ted Turner's Goodwill Games...
...certain to be approved by the House of Commons when it is submitted for a vote in the fall. But not without plenty of bellyaching from the opposition. Labour leader Neil Kinnock calls the plan "son of poll tax." His party favors tax rates that would take into account household income as well as property values...
...Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson, entertained the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. At their hereditary mansion they favored English butlers and European decor; even the family charades grew so elaborate that they were pictured in LIFE magazine. But for all this golden splendor, the Binghams of Louisville were not precisely household names, unless your household was in Kentucky, where they owned the dominant newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. The papers built, then eroded, a name for excellence; they promoted liberal orthodoxy and civic virtue, but had scant national profile. Thus it is a touch baffling that the past four...