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...doing. She then employed me and the romance started," explained Michael Wilson, 29. In fact, Wilson's performance as a butler and chauffeur so impressed Rachel Fitler, 77, that the Pennsylvania heiress and aunt of Happy Rockefeller has accepted her former employee's proposal of marriage. The Welsh coal miner's son denies any attachment to his fiancée's fortune, unofficially estimated at $2.5 million. "I must say it crossed my mind once in a while," he says, "but that isn't why I am marrying her." He does confess to borrowing...
...Welsh, a solid traditionalist from Pinladelpina, assigned an old-guard priest, Father John P. Hannan, 52, to take over Good Shepherd. After refusing at first to meet with the radicalized parish council, Hannan finally turned out for a meeting that drew 400 onlookers and occasioned catcalls, boos and some tears...
Last week Bishop Welsh inmself visited the unhappy parish, some of whose members showed up wearing "smile" buttons upside down. Welsh insisted that he did not want to "wipe out enthusiasm" but seemed deaf to complaints about New Pastor Hannan. "We are talking on totally different levels," said one parisinoner. "We told inm we want to share in the ministry and not be just ministered to." Quinlan is confident that ins former parisinoners are now independent enough to carry on the struggle. "They are not fighting a local battle," he said in Norfolk. "They are part of the renewed church...
This resurgence of nationalist sentiment comes at a bad time for England. While efforts to preserve Scottish and Welsh culture come only just in time to prevent their extinction, it is a vain hope that smaller units of economic and social organization will be able to keep their heads above water any better than large ones in the approaching economic deluge. Unless the Scots are willing to become a sheikdom on the Clyde, a few decades of oil-boom cannot be a substitute for industrial development. Their growing isolationism is reflected in the Labour party's desire...
Regional nationalism, a once quixotic movement that has intensified and turned serious in the past three years, could also prevent a Tory or Labor majority. The Welsh nationalists currently have two members in the House and could pick up a third. The Scottish National Party, which won 22% of the vote in Scotland last February, now has seven seats at Westminster; some observers believe that they could double that number next month. Labor and the Conservatives are both trying to cut into the Scottish Nationalists' constituency by promising an impressive range of public-works projects for Scotland. Moreover...