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...with custom." And that, in fact, is just the trouble. By an act of 1536, Westminster "is reputed and called the King's Palace at Westminster forever." Its administrative head is the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, who declares that "my first duty is to the sovereign who appointed me," his second to the palace, and his third to doing what he can for M.P.s...
...shook the hand of the darkly handsome man standing by the fireplace. "Take charge, boy," he said, with a broad grin. "This is what you call the first team going in." A few minutes later, while President Eisenhower and the Pentagon's top brass looked on approvingly, Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, was sworn in as the nation's seventh Secretary of Defense...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--Neil H. McElroy, the first space age secretary of defense, resigned today and Philadelphia banker Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. was promoted to the top Pentagon post, McElroy is leaving after 26 months at the helm of the Defense Department...
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...once unruly Nasser. Whereas Nasser acted in his official capacity as chief of state to reach out and grab the Suez Canal, Panama's President de la Guardia shuns such ambition, and even the mob so far aspires only to seeing the Panamanian flag flying over the "sovereign" territory...