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...sailed from London two years ago, Toni Avril Gardiner, 21, was back home again. As Princess Muna al Hussein, wife of Jordan's King Hussein, she checked into the palatial Dorchester Hotel with 27 satchels of finery, then toured the town in a murmuring maroon Bentley with a Scotland Yard escort on a shopping expedition to buy toys for her five-month-old son. And wasn't it fun to lunch at Buckingham Palace? Said the Princess: "I just hope I don't drop anything-any of those forks and spoons...
Bachelor Lynde Cochrane, 45, was descended from the fifth Earl of Douglas and from Scotland's hero, Robert Bruce. He married Vivian in a sneak ceremony on Aug. 12, 1917, and "immediately took off," said the Boston Globe, "in a high-powered automobile with clear weather and plenty of gasoline to take them to Newport on their way to a Maine hunting lodge." The second of their five children was Ceezee- christened Lucy Douglas Cochrane. Cochrane died in 1928, and in 1930 Vivian married another rich, blue-blooded Boston bachelor. Attorney Dudley L. Pickman Jr. He moved the whole...
...Scotland Yard put all harbors and airports on the alert, but it did so with a suggestion of quiet desperation. After all, Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington, stolen from the National Gallery eleven months ago, has yet to be found...
...know what's wrong," muttered Defending Champion Arnold Palmer on the eve of last week's British Open at Troon, Scotland. "My back hurts. My drives are straying off to the right. I don't know if I'll ever learn how to putt again. I'm just terrible-and I don't even want to talk about it." A photographer caught Palmer in a rare moment of pique (see cut), after a 4-ft. putt went awry during a practice round. But his complaints cut few divots with Britain's bookmakers...
...argument that has rattled on in Britain since Henry VIII is that Britain should not associate with predominantly Roman Catholic Western Europe; the Free Church of Scotland has specifically warned members against the sinister "web of Rome." Another criticism of British membership is that under Common Market guarantees of free movement, the Anglo-Saxon shores will be invaded by hordes of immigrants from the Continent, competing for jobs and living space...