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...Queen displayed regal presence under pressure that would have impressed even her great-great-grandmother Victoria, the stoic object of seven assassination attempts over 42 years. As Elizabeth talked with Fagan, she managed to telephone the palace police switchboard twice, in a calm voice, to summon help. No one came immediately because the urgency of her situation was not realized An attendant who might have helped her was out walking the royal Corgis. She was finally saved when a maid entered the bedroom, took a stunned glance at the visitor and blurted, "Bloody hell, ma'am! What...
...quick to credit Washington's ominous doings with one benefit. They have focused attention on massive aid programs which--though growing at a furious rate for the last 20 years--had never before been subjected to the kind of philosophical scrutiny that its defenders have recently had to summon...
...Spielberg declares. "My life comes from there." He likes these people and communicates that affection. Faced with balky children or a restless preternatural presence, the parents demonstrate their go-with-the-flow resilience. And when things get climactically hairy, these people can be roused to fear and anger, can summon reserves of surprising strength They are the movies' favorite species: ordinary heroes...
What Guido does not have is a scrap of script or the ghost of an idea. He retreats to a Venetian spa to summon up the Muse but instead scares up the Furies-all the women in his life. Dressed all in black, the women seat themselves on detached all-white 2½-ft.-high cubes that symmetrically dot the stage. Raising a baton, Guido affects to conduct a discordant Greek chorus of lamentation...
...forces, such posses now number 43 in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County. The Sun City posse is the largest and, with an average age of 68, the most elderly. The oldest participant: 84-year-old Bill Moore. Volunteers patrol by twos in cars 17 hours a day and summon the professional cops by radio if they spot serious trouble. As part of "vacation watch," a posse patrolman will also check doors and windows for residents who leave town. And always, posse members are alert for an outsider who does not appear to belong. Says Esther Hart...