Word: buckingham
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Unresigned to his fate, Tony Benn mailed his viscountcy patent back to the Lord Chamberlain at Buckingham Palace. Last week he watched from the Commons visitors gallery as Home Secretary "Rab" Butler helpfully proposed that the Committee of Privileges investigate the question of whether Benn's parliamentary privilege had been violated. As a last resort, Benn could still defy the 1678 rule barring peers from Commons by standing for and winning re-election to the House -the device by which Charles Bradlaugh in the late 19th century overturned the rule barring atheists from Commons...
Fandango. No public campus in the country has moved faster in that direction than California's Berkeley, the Buckingham Palace of Clark Kerr's empire, across the bay from San Francisco. Few campuses boast an odder beginning. Berkeley's impecunious parent was a Congregationalist academy launched in 1853 by a Yale clergyman from Massachusetts. The campus was a fandango dance hall, but Founder Henry Durant in a letter home glowed over the "beauty and salubrity" of the place. He hoped to educate gold miners, and believed in looking on the bright side...
Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 62, long abask in U.S. footlights, nervously made an entrance in the ballroom of London's Buckingham Palace. Quivering with stage fright, she was invested by Queen Elizabeth II with the insignia of a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Tremoloed Dame Judith in her best Medea style: "The hardest role I've ever had to play...
...world on live and taped TV (see SHOW BUSINESS). Outside the Abbey, a quarter-million loyal Britons lined the processional route, greeting every glimpse of the royal couple with cheers, hurrahs and choruses of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. When Meg and Tony emerged from Buckingham Palace after the wedding breakfast, the whole royal family pelted them with confetti and rose petals. In the lead was Queen Elizabeth, who had sat glum and stony-faced through the Abbey ceremony but now flung roses as riotously...
Teleprayer. Full of subdued color, Dimbleby had a kindly plug or two for Queen Elizabeth's coachman, Joseph Cooze. He described the mounted Sovereign's Escort as "this lovely, twinkling jingle of breastplates," and back at Buckingham Palace, when a telescopic longshot followed the royal family as they left the balcony and got a candid peek at the Queen Mother mimicking a part of the ceremony, Dimbleby was propriety itself: "I think we ought not to stand and watch the royal family inside their own house any more...