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Security was tightened after the kidnaping attempt against Princess Anne, but there was no secret last week about the British royal family's activities. The princess was off on a West German visit. Prince Philip had a nasty fall when his four-in-hand overturned in Windsor Great Park, throwing him under the horses' hooves. Prince Charles was steaming into Acapulco Bay aboard H.M.S. Jupiter. In fact, the most closely guarded secret was the composition of the royal party at the Royal Film Performance, an annual benefit glittering with stars and royals. This year it was announced that...
...June 1972, a cargo door blew out of an American Airlines DC-10 over Windsor, Ont., though the crew managed to land the plane safely. After investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board sent a number of recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration for implementation as an "airworthiness directive." The directive, a drastic order with compliance supervised by the FAA, would have forced McDonnell Douglas and airlines flying the DC-10 to make certain design changes in the cargo door...
...then, did the company oppose an airworthiness directive to improve the cargo door after the investigation into the Windsor incident and request less fundamental changes instead? McDonnell Douglas has given no official explanation. One reason may have been to avoid bad publicity for the DC-10, which was then a relatively new plane...
...house on Grand River killing both his mother and his sister. A man in a Santa Claus outfit was robbed and beaten in the alley behind downtown Hudson's by a gang of four teenage boys. A fifty-year-old man crashed his car into the walls of the Windsor Tunnel, killing three people but not himself. And farther north on Novak Street, Kimberly Rath washed her hair and left on her long last walk...
...lissome granddaughter Princess Caroline of Monaco, 17. That was roughly the plot the Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week in a story that said Prince Charles of England, 25, was swept off his feet by Caroline. The pair got together presumably last year when she attended a convent school near Windsor Castle. The problems were even more alluring. As head of the Church of England, Charles can only marry an Anglican. Would he renounce his throne for Roman Catholic Caroline? Or would she be converted? The answer from Buckingham Palace and Monaco's royal palace was unanimous: No. In fact...