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...This is a family matter," the father of the bride insisted. "It's going to be handled in a family way." And Dean Rusk made it stick. A hermetic shroud of secrecy effectively surrounded the advance preparations, and when he escorted Margaret Elizabeth Rusk down the aisle of Stanford University's Memorial Church, the assembly of 60 was limited to personal friends and kin. The shortened Episcopal service took barely a dozen minutes. Then the whitegowned bride, smiling fetchingly and seemingly relaxed, emerged with her equally poised husband, Guy Gibson Smith...
...This year again," mused James Peden, University of Mississippi law student, "they chose the past. The past covers Mississippi like a shroud." The past, in this case, was personified by John Bell Williams, 48, who last week won the Democratic primary runoff, thus virtually assuring his election in November as Mississippi's next Governor. By 362,300 votes to 304,200, Williams, a 21 -year congressional veteran and arch-segregationist who was stripped of his House seniority by Democrats for supporting Barry Goldwater in 1964, defeated State Treasurer Wil liam Winter, a racial moderate backed by Mississippi...
...Sigma Chis at Colorado State have invented a sweetheart of a sport. They call it "parachute riding," and it works like this: first a parachute is laid out on the ground with all the shroud lines straight; then it is harnessed to the rider, who stands, sits or stretches out on a flat piece of heavy cardboard. Helpers then lift the chute so that it can fill with wind-all the while chanting "Come and help, Gus!" (the name for springtime gusts in the Rockies)-and away the rider goes over the grass on his cardboard chariot at speeds...
...were only yesterday." The countryside, with its villages, horse-drawn carts and unmechanized farms, looks as if the clock had been turned back 30 or 40 years. The highways are potholed and traffic ranges from light to nonexistent. The blue haze of soft-coal smoke seems to shroud the cities, adding to the ever-present smells of cabbage and disinfectant. The cautious satirists in East Berlin's Distel (Thistle) cabaret suggested one socialist solution for some of East Germany's ills: nose plugs...