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...Gerard will be best man in absentia; his father, Gerard Sr., will stand proxy for him. And so, after a ceremony of 60 minutes, Miss Luci Baines Johnson of the White House and Johnson City, Texas, will become the lawful wedded wife of Mr. Patrick John Nugent of Waukegan, Ill., a town hitherto famed mostly for the fact that it was the birthplace of Jack Benny...
Free Flowers. Most of the arrangements have been completed. Luci and Pat have selected twelve bridesmaids, twelve ushers, a flower girl and a ring bearer. The night before the big day, the bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Nugent of Waukegan, ILL., will hold a rehearsal dinner for the wedding party and relatives, probably at a private Washington club. The church service will follow the conventional form...
...decorated with pebbles, from a New Jersey elementary school; a sheet and pillow cases hand-tatted by a 15-year-old Rochester girl; a cake plate lovingly decorated by an elderly woman in the Midwest. Luci has also reaped a harvest of gifts from two bridal showers-one in Waukegan, the other in Washington. At the latter, the bride-to-be received enough soufflé dishes to swamp the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin. Now the future Mrs. Nugent will have to learn to cook a souffl...
...MICHAEL WAMSLEY Waukegan...
...view of the future is not all depressive. When he lifts his eyes above earth-gashing highway departments and bovine people licking corporate salt, he sees the rockets of the space age that he dreamed of in Waukegan as a little boy. "This is mankind's chance to be immortal," he says. "We're going to travel into space and live forever. Our children's children shall live a million miles away. It took us one billion years to form a spinal cord, and now we're going to leave this shore...