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...Catholic ceremony, King and Queen rode in a bubbletop Cadillac through the cheering streets to the 13th century Gothic church of St. Gudule. The church was hung with scarlet draperies, ancient tapestries and 150,000 Spanish violets. In the ranks of honor, with the royalty and the beribboned ambassadors of 67 nations, sat six Congolese army officers.* As they entered the church, Fabiola once again almost tripped over her train, but this time Baudouin straightened it out himself and led his bride down the great center aisle to the altar. After the ceremony, cannon boomed, bells pealed, and a thousand...
...BOSTON PRINTMAKERS' EXHIBITION, the 13th annual exhibition of the Boston Printmakers, will be held in Galleries CC of the MFA November 1 through 30. 134 prints will be on view all of which will be seen publicly in Boston for the first time. Twelve awards including the new Boston Printmakers Members Prize of $100 will be presented...
...Eldorado I suffered the terrifying experience of jamming the shoe on the other foot. Having often watched the patient President tee off, my foursome of reporters found itself in the position of being watched by Ike, who had stepped over from the 13th green to watch our drives. This was all right for the other three, all better-than-average golfers. Since I have never broken 100 and have been known to endanger spectators no more hazardously placed than at right angles to my line of fire, my vision blurred, my knuckles went white, my breathing became irregular...
...triple crown, or triregnum, evolved in the 13th century, and its original meaning has been lost. Some authorities say that the Pontiff's three crowns represent the "teaching, ruling and sanctifying church"; others UPI that they are symbolic of the Pope's being the father of the Princes of Kings, Pontiff of the World, Vicar of Christ on Earth...
Married. John Robert Russell, 43, tax-pinched 13th Duke of Bedford, who since opening his ancestral Woburn Abbey estate to the public in 1955 has entertained more than 2,000,000 visitors-including a nudists' convention-at 35? a head; and Nicole Milinair, 40, comely, cigar-smoking, French-born TV producer and World War II Resistance worker, who remarked upon receipt of her diamond engagement ring: "It's a nice piece of glass, isn't it?"; he for the third time, she for the second; in Ampthill, England...