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...long, dim view of this nuptial speedup is taken this week by the Christian Century: "By what great shift in sociology, psychology, temperature or radiation are we to account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...
...home ("I leaned across the asparagus," says Kennedy, "and asked her for a date"). In September 1953, Senator Jack and Socialite Jackie were married in Newport, with some 2,000 people arriving in chartered buses to stand outside while Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing performed the nuptial Mass in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. Jackie soon found out what it meant to be a Kennedy: she broke an ankle playing touch football. But she has become part of the solid front the Kennedys present to the world, even to the point of indulging in masterful oversimplification...
...What we try to do," says the producer of NBC's daily nuptial show, Bride and Groom, "is to give the ordinary American girl a chance to have a big wedding on TV just like Grace Kelly and Queen Elizabeth." Nonetheless, for ten seasons, comedians, critics and the Roman Catholic Church have heaped scorn on the show's televised weddings. One objector paraphrased the commercial-mottled script: "Whomsoever God and Betty Crocker hath joined together . . ." Another said: "Bride and Groom is as embarrassing as watching your girl friend publicly eating peas off her knife." Bob Hope cracked...
Between Grace on TV and Margaret over those telephone lines, Mrs. Choplin might almost as well have passed up the newspapers, for last week's headlines-even the non-nuptial ones-seemed to be primarily dedicated to the proposition that it might as well be June. In Manhattan World Bank President Eugene Black, who calls himself a conservative banker "committed to the future," sunnily predicted that the national incomes of the U.S. and Western European nations would double "in just over 20 years." In the Middle East Egypt's aggressive Prime Minister Nasser and Israel's combative...
...introductions to eligible girls from California to Texas (as a 2nd lieutenant in the French army in World War II, Rainier served as a liaison officer with the Texas 36th Infantry Division). Like the Monégasques, Father Tuck fervently hopes that he will be singing a royal nuptial Mass soon, and that Monaco will live happily ever after. He is homesick for Delaware and weary of the royal routine. "I'd like to leave Monaco," he sighed, as he sipped a martini. "This high living doesn't agree with an old goat like...