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...wealthy widower, Norman Lonsdale. He would be an atypically U choice for Margaret. Asked whether he would rule out any chance that he would wed the Princess, Lonsdale was gallantly U in his reply: "I think it would be rather rude if I said there was no possibility." Mum was not the word, however, for Queen Elizabeth's press secretary, Michael Shea, whose normally tight lips loosened at a banquet. According to a journalist who was present, he revealed that the family nickname for the Queen when she was bored or displeased was "Miss Piggyface." His indiscretion...
...their enthusiasm for the President. In the territory where Rowland Evans and Robert Novak roam-and where seldom is heard a discouraging word about Senator Jesse Helms and other rightists-the atmosphere is humid with intrigues, heavy-breathing innuendoes and indirect quotes ("Important conservative Republicans in Congress, while keeping mum publicly, grumble privately that the President has lost control of his own Administration to moderate forces"). Reagan momentarily retrieved himself to Evans-Novak at Ottawa by proving "rigidly ideological as no other American President has been." Criticism might be preferable to that kind of praise...
...hoped for a happy day to mark an historic occasion. Our wildest hopes have been exceeded." Total arrests for the wedding day: ten, all for such minor offenses as pickpocketing or indecent assault. Along the length of the processional route, the rudest sign that greeted the royals was HI, MUM-which could have been, given the circumstances and the spelling, either a message directed via TV toward home or a chummy salute to the Queen Mother...
...lines drawn around heavy concentrations of University use, outside of which expansion will be most difficult. The lines, the officials fear, will create "psychological barriers" to any growth at all, even into non-residential neighborhoods not governed by the proposed ordinance. But for the time being, Harvard is officially mum: "I would hate to pass judgment on a piece of legislation that hasn't come up yet," Armistead said last week...
...girl who will be Queen has already resigned her teaching post and moved from her London flat into royal quarters. At Clarence House, home of the popular "Queen Mum," Elizabeth's mother, and just 200 yds. from Buckingham Palace, she will doubtless be instructed in some of the finer nuances of royal protocol. She has presumably already satisfied the royal doctors that she can bear healthy children and has no family history of hereditary maladies. Asked if she feels prepared for the life ahead of her, the future Queen of England responded in the sweet, storybook style that...