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Royalty is bound by snoblesse oblige to obey the tenets of U and non-U, the sacred set of English rules that separates upper class from lower, proper from gauche. Lately the House of Windsor has been demonstrating both sides of U usage. At Badminton competing for the Whitbread Trophy, Princess Anne's horse Stevie B was decidedly non-U as he made a shambles of a jump and a splash of his royal rider. Both walked away safely, everything dampened but their spirits. Meanwhile, Fleet Street speculated that Princess Margaret would marry an Old Eton ian and wealthy...
...once again based on job requirements rather than on the applicant's potential? If your life or mine was in danger, I daresay we would desire the best physically equipped person available, not someone who was hired by virtue of a quota system. Paul F. Lupica East Windsor...
Heading a top international cast, Italian Baritone Renato Bruson was totally in harmony with the conductor. His Sir John was not the lecherous, cardboard heavyweight of operatic cliche but a man of complex emotions-however inappropriately addressed to two married ladies of Windsor After a somewhat tentative start, Bruson's sharply focused voice proved equal to Verdi's demands, from the boisterous "L'onore" monologue at the end of the first scene to the sprightly C major fugue that closes the work...
...this 33-sq.-mi. secondary ring of destruction, almost everyone is a casualty. Across the Detroit River in Windsor, Canadians strolling the promenade are severely burned and then pounded by fragments from Detroit's Renaissance Center, hurled across the river by 160-m.p.h. winds...
...world knows, Margaret suffered her severest checkmate when, in 1955, she was informed that the divorcee she loved, Group Captain Peter Townsend, was unacceptable to the House of Windsor. She renounced Townsend, "mindful of the Church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble...