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...royal luncheon in Glasgow last month, Businessman Peter Balfour turned to the just-engaged Prince Charles and wished him long life and conjugal happiness with Lady Jane. The effect of the sentiment was compromised both by the fact that the Prince's betrothed is Lady Diana (Spencer) and that Lady Jane (Wellesley) is one of his former flames. "I feel a perfect fool," said Balfour, who was unnecessarily contrite. Slips of the tongue occur all the time. In Chicago recently, Governor James Thompson was introduced as "the mayor of Illinois," which was a step down from the time...
These revelations caused congressional Democrats to question Reagan's motives in the spending cuts. Said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts: "If this was a budget decision, then I'm Lady Diana Spencer." Added Congressman Thomas Lantos of California: "Calling this a budget decision is a smokescreen. It's a policy change based on the Administration's relationship with the oil companies." Responding just as vehemently, Energy Secretary James Edwards insisted that the prosecutions would proceed even under the new budget. Said he: "By God, there'll be no amnesty." Meanwhile, the oil companies sit silently...
Spiking the stale beer of Britons' discontent-deepening recession, wallet-walloping new taxes-came a tulip glass of bubbly named Di. When blond, blue-eyed, 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer made her first formal appearance last week as the fiancée of the Prince of Wales, she left the island gasping. Attending a benefit recital at the Goldsmiths' Hall -close to St. Paul's Cathedral, where the royal couple will be married July 29-the Queen-to-be stepped out in a strapless, black silk-taffeta evening gown that radiated a wolf-whistle glamour...
...Epps has singled us out for harassment," Alison K. Spencer, a member of the Cambridge Spartacist Youth League, said yesterday...
...FSYL is not officially affiliated with the regular Boston-area organization, the Spartacist Youth League, Spencer said, adding. "It's a pretty loose organization at Harvard. We've always done the minimum to get official recognition...