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...water, wrapped in a seamless white sheet, and covered by a dark brown shroud. The corpse lay in state briefly at the al Id al Kabir Mosque, which was sur rounded by more than 100,000 mourning Saudis. "Where goes our knight?" some cried. "Where goes our protector against confusion and poverty?" During the fatiha, the introductory in vocation, and again during the prayer for the dead, Arab dignitaries prostrated themselves on the ground. At length, the King's body was transported, with six of Faisal's brothers serving as pallbearers, to a graveyard on the outskirts...
...mask would be fined $50. But when Long approached Honored Guest Betty Ford to claim a dance, a Secret Service man barred his way, saying, "You can't dance with Mrs. Ford until we know who you are." Russell identified himself, but Mrs. Ford's protector persisted, "You will have to take off your mask." So Long dropped his mask and $50 for a dance with Betty...
...greatest Englishman of his age, Winston Churchill? Was Welsh Actor Richard Burton trying a backhanded publicity stunt for the TV documentary The Gathering Storm, which starred Burton as a stringy, humorless Winnie and was aired to celebrate the centenary of Churchill's birth? Or was he playing protector of Fiancee Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, whose father, Prince Paul, handed over his country to the Nazis in 1941 and was publicly vilified by Churchill...
...authentic expression of independent personality, of her right to growth through personally challenging work, and even of her right to direct participation in the forces in her life. For Anais Nin, the diary itself proved her only haven of authenticity: "Playing so many roles, dutiful daughter, devoted sister, mistress, protector, my father's new found illusion, Henry's needed all-purpose friend, I had to find one place of truth, one dialogue without falsity. This is the role of the diary...
...remains a protector in her recollections, which favor Frost and reticence. Still, she does not turn aside from what must be admitted about the man. When he was angry, she recalls, he would sometimes hide in the woods near his farmhouse, apparently hoping that his friends would think that he had come to harm. In the years after Elinor's death, she notes, "his incautious use of pills always stopped short of the ultimate message it was meant to convey...