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...earl dropped $280,000, calmly borrowed another $280,000 and recouped $5,600. When a blonde baroness in a skintight red dress left the chemmy table one morning last week after dropping $5,600, she yawned: "Lovely evening, really." Lured by cut-rate Lucullan food (price of dinner: $2.50) and free breakfast with champagne, more than 1,200 top-drawer Britons have joined the club, which Tim Holland modestly calls a "gold mine." Last week, after his casino had been running only ten days. Crocky's new master had already earned the Biblical encomium pinned on Fishmonger Crockford...
Looking like a couple of Abercrombie & Fitch Minutemen, California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown and a Republican predecessor. U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, indulged in a little apolitical potshooting in the duck-rich Sacramento Valley. "Both of them." assured Comrade at Arms (and Sacramento City Manager) Bartley Cavanaugh. "are careful hunters, and there is no shooting over the limit." Diplomatically unreported by Cavanaugh was the fact that while the Chief Justice did. in fact, knock down his limit of five mallards and sprigs, the city-bred Governor managed to bag only four...
...Aunt Elizabeth as the Archbishop of Canterbury sprinkled him with water from the River Jordan, Britain's 46-day-old Viscount Linley was christened David Albert Charles in the domed music room of Buckingham Palace. The ceremony over, David's proud parents, Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon, set off to finish up their preparations for a Christmas en famille at the Queen's Norfolk country home, after which they planned to take a second honeymoon in the West Indies-sans the squalling viscount...
...Southern lunch counters. But the court's voice was muted. All nine justices agreed to set aside the 1960 convictions of 16 Negro college students arrested while trying to break the segregation barrier in Baton Rouge eateries. The court's opinion, written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, dealt only with the fact that there had been no evidence that the students were guilty, as charged, of having violated a Louisiana disturbing-the-peace statute that prohibits anyone from acting "in such manner as to unreasonably and foreseeably disturb the public." (The state law has since been amended...
...begun to turn sharply away from this kind of religious individualism. "We were trying to put religion in everyday clothes," says Dr. Henry C. Kodh of Washington's United Church of Christ, "until finally we found that we had put everyday clothes on Sunday." Adds Dr. Earl Waldrop of San Antonio's Central Christian Church: "We began to realize that for no reason other than prejudice, we had discarded some of the beautiful aspects of worship. We had become more a meeting of fellowship than a group of worshipers." According to Dr. Samuel Miller, dean of Harvard Divinity...