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...parish church in Elles-borough last week concentrated on the evils of wealth, but at least one member of the congregation, Mark Thatcher, 30, may have been distracted. The son of Britain's Prime Minister was visiting Chequers, the P.M.'s country estate, so that Dad and Mum could entertain his new American girlfriend, Karen Fortson, 24. She is the daughter of Ben Fortson, a Fort Worth oil magnate, and murmurings from both families suggest that a match may be entirely suitable. For the Fortsons, a Thatcher might be the next best catch to British royalty. And with...
...wish we could offer our hearty congrats To barrier-breaker young William M. Batts. But mum's the good word, we can't talk about that, One's taught to keep stuff like that under one's hat. Instead, we'll keep matters decorous and clean By buying Greg Lyss a new Xerox machine To run off his thousands of letters pristine While still saving money for Council and Dean...
...Neill retraction is symptomatic of the general decline in Democratic response to the Administration. In the wake of the Grenada invasion, Democrats have seen their foremost leaders stumble or keep mum. Kennedy has kept silent, Glenn and Mondale vied for the loudest comfortable position and O'Neill mumbled about keeping our boys safe. Suddenly, in the Reston interview, O'Neill seemed to strike a strong position...
...best-beloved member of the British royal family is not William, Diana or the Queen, but the Queen Mum. Adored ever since she chose to stay on in London, alongside King George VI, as an example to her countrymen during the brutal Nazi blitz of World War II, the plucky Queen Mother Elizabeth stirred more admiration six weeks ago with a visit to troubled Northern Ireland despite the obvious danger. Last week all the kingdom seemed to be celebrating with her as she turned 83. Much of the day was spent with her royal relatives, but the morning belonged...
...shaggy locks trimmed. Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had had her teeth capped. The country was, in short, coming down with ballot-box fever. Nearly everyone expected Thatcher to call a general election for next month, al most a year before her five-year term runs out. Thatcher was mum on the subject, so the nation looked for omens, above all in local elections that took place last Thursday in every part of the country except London and Scotland...