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...Senators Charles McC. Mathias and Wendell Ford, the chairman and a minority member respectively of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. The split-second Inaugural script, worked out in rehearsals staged with military personnel standing in for the Reagans, called for the swearing-in to begin just before noon. The oath of office was to be administered by Chief Justice Warren Burger before an invited assembly encompassing both houses of Congress, the rest of the Supreme Court, the President's Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the 300-member Washington diplomatic corps and 93 other guests. The President planned...
Like all romantic leads, the subway avenger looked better on paper. Until the real one stood up at a New Hampshire police station and confessed, we could imagine him a star. Charles Bronson. Gary Cooper as Wyatt Earp. Better still, Cooper in High Noon, citizen-lawman, doing his duty, Grace Kelly at his side...
...institutionalized Yuppieism," Jackson intoned, drawing a wave of applause from the crowd gathered for the noon ceremony. South Africa's apartheid system segregates blacks and whites and denies many civil rights to minorities...
...nearly noon, and Nancy Reagan stood in the Red Room with a butler, waiting. Over in the Oval Office, her husband had just finished the most consequential diplomatic meeting of his first term, last fall's tete-a-tete with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Now, for a few minutes, she was to do her duty as First Lady, to greet and charm the visitor from Moscow...
...Jubilee Singers of the Divinity School will perform at the service for King, which is to begin at noon...