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...part, if only by resolving to have the ceremony performed in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception-largest Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.-the President's younger daughter opted automatically for pomp above privacy. No one has ever been married before in the great hilltop edifice in northeast Washington, with its mosaic domes, 30 satellite chapels and ornate, still-incomplete interior that has had to be cleared of scaffolding for the occasion. Actually, it is normal Catholic practice for a girl to be married in her own parish church; Luci's happens to be St. Matthew...
...around Sun Valley, Idaho, where he spent the last three years of his life. The dedication came on what would have been the author's 67th birthday, and 300 friends gathered with his widow Mary and son Jack to pay their respects. "I looked around at all the pomp and circumstance," said Jack after the speeches, "and then I saw a fruit jar at the base of the statue filled with wild flowers. That really got to me. Papa would have liked that...
Usually, a military change of command is accompanied by the most poignant pomp and circumstance. Boot heels click and swords flash in the sun; hands sweep neatly to helmet brims and pennants slowly change place on flagstaffs. Last week, as France withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the change of command was far from melodramatic. French General Glean Crepin, commander of the Allied Forces in Central Europe, demanded a private ceremony in the inner courtyard of the Château de Fontainebleau. There, with the quietest of diplomatic drumrolls, he relinquished control of the 60 divisions in NATO...
Decline of Indignation. In a city where newspaper columnists are almost always civic boosters, Mike Royko, 33, is a constant critic. A foe of all forms of cant and pomp, he carries on a love-hate affair with his home town. He writes tenderly of its ethnic neighborhoods, its traditions and folkways; he fires at will at its politicians and their pretensions. When public officials raced to outdo each other issuing outraged statements after an attempted gangland killing, Royko sadly noted the decline in the "quality of indignant statements." If enough such statements "come pouring out after someone is shot...
Officially, it was simply a pomp-and-panoply state visit as Queen Elizabeth of Britain last week paid a five-day call in Brussels on King Baudouin of Belgium. But Brussels is more than just the capital of Belgium these days. With each fresh agreement of the Common Market Six (see WORLD BUSINESS), it becomes more and more the headquarters and repository of the Continent's hopes for unity. Mindful of that, the Queen had some carefully chosen words to say: "Like so many things in life, the desirable is not always immediately attainable, but I join with...