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...Margaret and Princess Alexandra, opulently gowned, bejeweled and tiara-topped, struck strikingly similar attitudes and expressions before dashing under the marquee in the escort of an umbrella-holding doorman. Several days later, Elizabeth had a far closer call from an overhead peril. Ordinarily, when she flies in her own realm, her air travel is known as a "purple flight," and all aircraft must avoid her route by ten miles. Flying back home from a visit to Denmark, Elizabeth had no such protection as she jetted along near the West German-Dutch border at a 35,000-ft. altitude. The Queen...
Except in reaction to some sharp crack, Nixon rarely looked at Kennedy while Kennedy was talking, although Kennedy kept a shrewd eye cocked on Nixon most of the time that the Vice President had the mike. In the realm of foreign policy they produced the real blazing sparks that could well ignite the campaign and keep it burning straight through into November. Items...
...heartening to see education receiving somewhat more than its perennial election year homage. In proposing to extend Federal aid to the realm of teachers' salaries, Senator Kennedy expressed the sensible opinion that Federal control amounts to a risk, but not a bogeyman. It is a risk that can be handled by legislation safeguarding local autonomy over the use of Federal funds. And it is a risk that we have been paying too highly for not taking...
Ninette de Valois has been casting commands in the form of such darting questions ever since she singlehandedly began creating a national ballet for England almost 30 years ago. At 62, "Madame," as she is awesomely and invariably called by the company, rules the most impressive ballet realm in the Western world. Under her feminine but emphatic control: the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), now twirling through its sixth U.S. tour; a second, full-fledged company currently holding the fort at home; the Royal Ballet School, and a post-graduate workshop for ballet teachers...
...miles distant. They yo-yo back and forth between fish 'n' chip houses and some of the United Kingdom's most capacious pubs (Blackpool has 105, one of which can handle 1,000 guzzlers at a time). They also toss away the oversize coins of the realm in penny arcades, and take in Britain's only permanent circus. Even the public toilets have a first-rate box office, bringing in 7,000,000 pennies a year...