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...first time in 385 years, God was in his heaven last week in an English playhouse. Golden-crowned and brown-bearded, he looked down upon the stage of London's Mermaid Theatre from a cushioned wooden throne, surrounded by angels with blond wigs and paper wings. The occasion was the first performance of the Wakefield Mystery Plays-one of the treasures of medieval Christianity-since they were banned...
...still am czar!" sang the basso, glaring at his counselors like a wounded lion. Then he half rose from his throne to take the most spectacular fall in opera-pitching forward on his left shoulder and rolling down the stairs to lie dead on the marbled Kremlin floor. The basso, who had studiously practiced his fall in a neighborhood gym, was Chicago-born Gíorgio Tozzi; his part was the title role in last week's NBC-TV version of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. For both Tozzi and the NBC Opera, the production of Boris...
...shall never rise to the level of other peoples. Anyway, an educated population is difficult to govern." He grew increasingly impervious to Western influence, despite his summer visits to the royal villa at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera. By the time he took the throne in 1959, after the old King died at 74, Savang Vatthana seemed to have sunk into a torpor that could not be shaken by the fast-paced world around him. One Western diplomat, after a session with the King, said it was "like listening to a long Oriental movie dubbed in French...
Britain's bachelor Duke of Kent, 25, the first cousin of the Queen and eighth in succession to the throne, was an elusive catch. Commoner Katherine Worsley, 28, a descendant of Regicide Oliver Cromwell, seemed hardly a likely captor, yet for four years, the couple sporadically courted. A captain in the Royal Scots Guards, the Duke was a heavy-footed hot-rodder ("100 miles an hour suits me") who had waffled at least four assorted autos, a light-hearted playboy whose pranks had been questioned on the floor of Commons. While the toothy peer muddled and frolicked through Eton...
...tipped helicopter blades made Ezekiel's fiery "wheels"-"and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted . . . And when they went. I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters." Above them hovered "the likeness of a throne," on which sat "the appearance of a man"-obviously, to Science-Fictionist Orton. a landing craft sent out by an orbiting mother ship...