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...drizzle failed to dampen the French welcome. "Bigger crowds for the Queen than for the referendum on Europe," observed the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchai=îné. Elizabeth's French, several reporters noted, was far better than Prime Minister Edward Heath's, and one columnist confided to his readers the great discovery that "the Queen likes all French food except oysters...
Amidst all the obsequious effusions, there was a glancing barb at the Queen's taste in hats-"For 20 years the same hat, to avoid hurting her hatter's feelings," teased one columnist...
Times called on Congress to "curb and control" the Executive Branch: "Nixon is pushing the country very near to a constitutional crisis; Congress can yet save the President from himself and the nation from disaster." But the Times's vice president and star columnist, James Reston, pointed out that Nixon's "new and more specific peace terms may be overlooked and underestimated" in all the rhetoric. "There is nothing here about keeping American air and naval power in Viet Nam, or defending the Thieu government...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft, "President Nixon is risking almost everything to gain practically nothing" because the best the Administration can achieve is a "fig leaf for defeat." On the same day's Washington Post op-edit page, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak called the President's latest move "dangerously high-risk poker," but speculated that the pot could be rewarding in two ways: by thwarting a fresh Communist offensive in the fall while keeping the Russians far enough below the boiling point to save a Moscow-Washington agreement on nuclear-arms limitations. The Washington Star, meanwhile, declared that...
Francis himself stands 5 ft. 8½ in. -tall for a jockey-and has pretty much been a winner ever since he quit school at 15 to ride. He has been a sports columnist, a horse trainer and a flyer, and he now owns a plane-rental service. All these experiences have been tidily folded into his crisp prose...