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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...
...Paul had desecrated the holy place. A frenzied mob surged around him and might well have killed him, for the penalty for desecrating the Temple was death. But the Roman authorities, anxious to prevent any disturbance in this tinderbox of a colony, sent him off with an impressive armed escort (200 infantrymen, 200 spearmen and 70 cavalrymen) to the Procurator in Caesarea. Paul remained there in prison for two years, finally invoked his right as a Roman citizen to a trial in the capital. And so, after a shipwreck off Malta, the old saint arrived at Rome at last...
...comes from revolt-ridden North Celebes, and has been on the police blacklists for some time (his brother was under arrest there for suspected dealings with the anti-Communist rebels). Government officials gulped even more uncomfortably on learning that Mauker had been one of the Indonesian pilots to fly escort for Nikita Khrushchev when the Soviet leader came to visit Sukarno last month...
...Israel near the Jordanian border. In a light airplane Dr. Aharoni flew close to the wadi's cliffs, taking photographs and spotting the mouths of many caves. Then he recruited 28 amateur archaeologists from tough Israeli border settlements. His expedition moved into the wilderness with a military escort to discourage Arab guerrillas...
...spectators lined Houston's Main Street as the coffin was borne to the Baptist Church where blue and grey honor guards stood shoulder to shoulder. Said the Rev. Mr. Stephen McKenney: "He and all his comrades have kissed the lips of immortality." Then a motorcade formed to escort him 125 miles to family burial grounds at Franklin. Texas. Soon the police-escorted procession was a mile long. Texans with heads uncovered stood by the roadside. Finally, at the Mount Pleasant Baptist cemetery, after three rifle volleys and Taps by a single bugler had echoed across the valley, the casket...