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...rockets and revolution, monarchy rarely receives its due. Not so last week in the mountainous realm of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. The Lion of Judah knows how to roll out a red carpet -and indeed when Queen Elizabeth II's bellowing VC-IO jetliner appeared over Addis Ababa last week, an Ethiopian army truck was still nudging its way through the airport crowd with yards and yards of the stuff...
Oaken Canopy. But on entering the great, drafty hall with its canopy of ancient oak, a great silence enfolded them. Footsteps were muffled by brown carpet, and the crowd divided into two lines, which passed on both sides of the catafalque. At the four corners stood tall candles and, nearly as rigid as the candlesticks, the honor guard, which solemnly changed every 20 minutes. As the people of Britain passed the casket, they dropped flowers-snowdrops, white carnations, daffodils. Before going out into Palace Yard, each one paused and looked back. Often dignitaries would enter the hall through another door...
...winter of our discothèque, and with a pair of teen-agers like Prince Charles, 16, and Princess Anne, 14, Mum and Dad might have known what to expect. To celebrate the holidays, the royal rockers rolled back the red carpet in the drawing room of Windsor Castle, then asked 120 chums over for a dinner of hors d'oeuvres and turkey. Main course was the frug, to the big beat played for Their Highnesses by a disk jockey who rents himself and his $3,000 hi-fi rig for just such occasions. Party over, host and hostess...
...Roman Catholic rectories of Los Angeles, the fathers sometimes make wry mention of the C.C.C.-the Cardinal's Carpet Club of parish priests who have incurred the wrath of James Francis Mclntyre, 78, the tough-willed, conservative Roman Catholic archbishop. Last week a leading member of the club, the Rev. John Coffield, 50, pastor of Ascension Church, announced that after 23 years of service in the archdiocese, he was going into voluntary "exile" to work in Chicago. His reason was the same one that impelled young Father William Du Bay eight months ago to call for the cardinal...
...York fire department feared a forest fire and ruled it out. But Aalto professed himself to be not at all disturbed, for the final result is a room that is sophisticated without sacrificing obvious handcraftmanship. Everything is pure high-altitude Aalto. Everything, that is, but the nubby brown carpet. Here another architect had been asked for an opinion. Her name? Mrs. Aalto...