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Canada's fastest-growing town this week is the Saskatchewan farm hamlet of Smiley, 300 miles northwest of Regina. Smiley's meager population has more than tripled, from 105 to 350, in the past four months. Roomers are bedded down on cots in the corridors of the town's only hotel. New streets have been laid out, lined with tar-paper shacks and auto trailers. A third classroom will be opened this week for the winter term in the Smiley schoolhouse...
Outside the grim walls of Rome's Regina Coeli prison last week, a happy mob of wives and sweethearts strummed mandolins and serenaded the prisoners cheering through the windows above. They had plenty to sing and cheer about: the Chamber of Deputies had just voted to free more than half of Italy's 50,000 prison inmates, the most liberal amnesty in the nation's history. Italy's police, however, did no cheering: the amnesty applies not only to political offenders but to thousands of petty thieves and run-of-the-mill crooks, many of whom...
...Vivat Regina. From the west door of the Abbey, Westminster's beadle led the ranking clergy of Great Britain to the foot of the altar steps. The orders of knighthood followed-Bath, Thistle and Garter-then the standards of the Commonwealth, led by Ceylon's (a lion grasping a sword), and concluded by the Royal Arms of England, borne by Montgomery of Alamein. Polity, law and religion-the triple stays of monarchy-were impressively represented in the persons of eight Prime Ministers (of Ceylon, Pakistan, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Britain), two Archbishops (York...
...Vivat Regina Elizabetha! Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!" shouted the Queen's Westminster Scholars as the Queen walked up the aisle, her long, crimson train borne by six maids of honor. At a faldstool on the left of the altar, the Queen knelt and prayed alone. Silently she rose and stood before the altar, facing first east, then south, west and north, to show herself to the people. Four times, once to each side, the Archbishop of Canterbury proclaimed: "Elizabeth, your undoubted Queen: wherefore, all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, are you willing...
Handsome Brenda Lewis as Regina Hubbard handles her role of super-bitch Tallulah Bankhead's in The Little Foxes) with the command of an actress as well as with a soprano of range and authority. But Regina's musical high point is the third-act Rain Quartet, which for lightness and inventive charm beats anything on Broadway for a long time...