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...best of times, Parisians did not know it. Girls in lace frills climbed excitedly into the first asth matic automobiles. Bearded, droopy-eyed Edward VII took his cigar and his carnation to the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergere. Donning top hats, venturesome souls climbed nonchalantly into a balloon and blithely sipped champagne, up and up, to shiver in their stiff collars at the dizzy height...
...Circle. -They had the same great-great-grandfather, Denmark's King Christian IX (1818-1906), whose skill at bagging the better thrones for his children earned him the sobriquet "Father-in-law of Europe." One of his daughters was Queen Alexandra, wife of Britain's King Edward VII; another, Princess Dagmar, married Russia's Czar Alexander...
There is no sense in joining the chorus of voices complaining that the Richard III of the play libels the historical model. The play's hero, destined to become Henry VII, is no more faithful to the laws of accurate portraiture. When art (even lesser art) and history collide, art very often wins out--and this is as it should...
...first stops was the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. There and in later meetings in two parks with a couple of Soviet colonels, he handed over detailed descriptions of the Mark VII nuclear weapon, the 280-mm. atomic cannon and an 8-in. nuclear gun. For his trouble, he was given $200 and told to use the money to travel to Cuba...
...only hitch is that they must beat the rap to qualify. But even then, there is no clear reason why they alone, of all criminal defendants in the Commonwealth, are entitled to have their lawyers paid by the public. They, and the electorate, would do well to recall Article VII of the first part of Massachusett's constitution...