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...first time in two weeks, the sun shone over London. Out of Buckingham Palace in gilded grace swept the Irish State Coach, bearing Queen Elizabeth II to Parliament. The royal route through St. James's Park was lined by a thousand troops, and the equipage of horses and cavalrymen jingled cheerily between trumpet fanfares. The Queen, acrackle in white silk organza and wrapped in white fox, dismounted and marched up the Royal Staircase past lines of tabarded heralds to the Royal Robing Room. Then, having donned the 18-ft. red velvet train, originally tailored for Queen Victoria...
...last to the big rock candy mountains of San Francisco. From the time he was an eagle scout in Toledo, Ohio-operating, he claims, from what must have been the only left-wing gangsterized troop in America-Rexroth's big German-American farm boy's face shone with the vocation of the radical outsider proud of belonging to people who have no belongings. Whether he was selling snake oil to farmers in the Southwest (his three-page sales pitch is a masterpiece of W. C. Fieldsian conmanship) or living it up in those all-purpose ashrams known...
...Harvard hockey team, checked a the verge of greatness for a month, finally came into its own last night with a glorious 7-4 upset of Boston college in the losers' McHugh Forum. Pete Miller and Dennis McCullough which scored twice and goalie Bill Fitz commons shone brighter than he had all star as Coach Cooney Weiland's skaters shot down the highly- touted Eagles for their fourth loss...
Johnson's Law. Taking aim at inflation, however tentatively, the Administration shone the spotlight on business. In a telephone address to the 65-man Business Council, the President forecast record prosperity without inflation in 1966, made it clear that he expected businessmen to exert price restraint to match the effort of servicemen in Viet Nam. Said the President: "We can produce the goods and services we require without overheating the economy." Addressing the meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers a few days later, Richard Nixon evoked many businessmen's feeling that they are bearing the main burden...
Orange Scintilla. A few pinpoints of light shone through the all-enveloping shroud. Many areas of Vermont, with nearly 30 individual utility companies, withstood the tide. New Hampshire went black in only two heavily populated western sections. The Lake Placid, N.Y., resort area was saved by the grandiloquently named Paul Smith's Electric Light & Power & Railroad Co. A local generator kept New Haven, Conn., aglow. Such isolated Massachusetts communities as Holyoke, Braintree and Taunton never lost a watt, and windswept Nantucket Island, 30 miles off Cape Cod, kept going with a private power system installed...