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...experience of that talent include London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo, who reported on the meticulous preparations for the latest royal trip. She covered the Queen's second visit to the U.S., in 1957. "Following her," Angelo recalls, "I gained lasting respect for her never-wilt stamina and serenity. Thirteen years later, I reported the first visit of Prince Charles and Princess Anne to Washington. I could see in Charles the same skill in putting the awestruck at ease...
More than sixty local businesses have already expressed interest in the new program, and thirteen have agreed to hire Cambridge citizens through the program. Beverly Taylor, the program's economic development coordinator said Thursday...
...seemed, more than usual, that every one of the icemen got into the act. Thirteen players' names appeared on the scoring sheet. Cleary's line-shuffling over the weekend, intended to balance Harvard's offenses, paid off in a big way, with every line contributing at least a goal...
...machinery for identifying potential Presidents, nominating candidates and choosing winners come to be so seriously out of sync with the modern requirements of the office? Compare the political leadership we are producing in this literate democratic society of some 230 million people with the leadership of the Thirteen Colonies in the late 18th century. For all its familiarity, the point is still a painful one. From 3 million people living on the edge of a wilderness: Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Franklin, the Adamses. (Would these men have survived the scrutiny of a Mike Wallace or Ben Bradlee? Probably...
...last time so many people converged on Washington, all with Viet Nam on their minds, was to condemn the war and the U.S. Government. Then, as now, many of the visitors wore blue jeans, beards and long hair. Thirteen years ago this month at the antiwar March Against Death, the demonstrators invented a perfect piece of moral theater by reciting, one at a time, the names of 40,000 Americans who had been killed up to then. Last Wednesday morning, in a chapel at Washington's National Cathedral, the bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more...