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...various celebrations at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, where the organist ended the service by striking up a rousing Happy Birthday. The next day, the traditional 62-gun birthday salute was fired at Hyde Park and the Tower of London. But the best present came when the Queen Mum got her long-standing wish to fly aboard the Concorde. During her nearly two-hour specially chartered flight over Britain, she dined on Scottish lobster and Angus beef and sipped her favorite champagne. Then she was strapped into a seat behind the pilot as he accelerated beyond the sound barrier...
...early the next morning to attend a service at the Washington Cathedral. Charles read Chapter 35 from Isaiah ("Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not") and was given a kneeling pillow at his pew that was hand needlepointed by his grandmother the Queen Mum and donated to the cathedral as a war memorial...
...Maurice Salha, who came to Australia from Lebanon 40 years ago, imports homewares from China, supplying the Mum-and-Dad discount stores some people call "$2 stores" or "junk shops." On a Monday morning in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney, his warehouses are abuzz as workers unload newly arrived shipping containers Since the early '70s, Salha has been buying goods in Asia, watching the focus shift from Hong Kong to Japan to Korea to Taiwan and now to mainland China. When he first went to Guangzhou in 1974, it took him four hours to see all the merchandise...
...moved into a new house, so I was unpacking and getting ready to have 30 people over for a birthday lunch. I had two chickens in the oven and was just about to pop some champagne when my mobile phone rang. When I hung up I said to my Mum, well, I'll see you sometime. I rang my husband, who's a fireman, at work and told him, and kissed my four children, who are aged 10, five, four and two, goodbye and got in the car. From that day until January 2, I was getting the unit ready...
...brilliant Jesuit scholar and inarguably holy figure, was once the great white-haired hope of the progressives for a successor to John Paul. Few believe he is still 'papabile'. When I caught up with him after the Pope's funeral, he smiled and shook my hand, but stayed mum. He has, however, been talking during the Cardinals' daily meetings, and Corriere reported today that he was listened to "intently" by his brother Cardinals. An American source of mine doesn't doubt that Martini is a respected voice. "They'll listen to what he has to say, especially among the Italians...