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...long as the British like the idea, they couldn't have a better next-up than this unstuffy, concerned and remarkably egalitarian man." Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof, meanwhile, set out to sketch a detailed portrait of the elusive Lady Diana. On the day the engagement was announced, he spotted Lord Spencer, Diana's father, taking pictures of the crowds in front of Buckingham Palace. He turned the chance encounter into an interview. Says Amfitheatrof...
...right turn wasn't Moses' doing. He and the children of Israel were following the Lord, who took the form of a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. The 40-year wandering was to punish Israel for its faithlessness. A dozen men were sent into Canaan on a 40-day reconnaissance mission. Ten of the twelve returned with reports of doom. Because their pessimism indicated faithlessness, God meted out a year of wandering for each day of spying...
...Does anybody know what that guy's beef was?" Later in the day, Dr. Ruge told Reagan for the first time that three others had been wounded. Said Reagan: "That means four bullets hit, good Lord." He wondered if the gunman had fired deliberately at the others or whether they had been struck by shots aimed at him. "I didn't want a supporting cast," he said. His eyes filled with tears as he talked about the others. "I guess it goes with the territory," he said sadly...
...late Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth and onetime Admiral of the Fleet; and Cecil King, now 80, former chairman of the International Publishing Corporation, Britain's largest press empire. The Sunday Times revived the story of a 1968 meeting between the two, first told by Lord Hugh Cudlipp, who was then deputy chairman of I.P.C. According to Cudlipp's 1976 autobiography, King had sought the assistance of Lord Mountbatten to mount a military coup against the faltering Labor government of then Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
...Great Holy Day, the three elders of the network Sanhedrin came into the sight of the Lord God, and they begged for his blessing. And God said: "You do not deserve my blessing. For your local newscasters bray like the jackal in the field, and your prime-time soaps are as the balm of Gomorrah, and your sitcoms are in violation of all that is funny. And you, O elders of cathode, you lusteth after false profits." And the three elders saith unto the Lord God: "Forgive us, O Lord, but we must make offerings to the false idol Nielsen...