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...military string ensemble pumped out the dansant tunes in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace as Master Farceur Noel Coward, 70, was dubbed a knight of the realm. In a simple, almost offhand ceremony, the entertainer knelt on a small stool and took a sword tap on each shoulder ("very lightly, thank goodness," he said later) from Queen Elizabeth II, who wore street clothes. "The Queen was absolutely charming," Coward told newsmen. "She always is. I've known her since she was a little girl." Then Sir Noel strolled off with a lady on each arm, wearing a rakishly tilted...
Hardly had the fighting ended in Biafra when the world's oilmen hustled in, checking damage to refineries, oil tanks and pipelines and preparing to tap wells that had been blocked off for 30 months. By early next month, drillers expect production to reach 780,000 bbl. a day. That would be enough to 1) supply all the needs of an industrial country the size of The Netherlands and the Union of South Africa combined, and 2) put Nigeria among the world's top ten oil producers...
...knows how many Americans have lost all feeling for nature and the quality of life. Even so, the issue now attracts young and old, farmers, city dwellers and suburban housewives, scientists, industrialists and blue-collar workers. They know pollution well. It is as close as the water tap, the car-clogged streets and junk-filled landscape?their country's visible decay, America the Ugly...
...investigators did not learn what was said in any of these calls, though they requested authorization to tap Dice Dawson's telephone. The Justice Department sought and obtained court permission for taps in other gambling cases last year, but the department's top echelon pigeonholed the request in the Dice Dawson investigation...
Japan's massive, often violent student demonstrations and its strong pacifist sentiment suggest widespread discontent, but the Socialists have not been able to tap it. "Our fundamental fault," concedes wavy-haired Party Chairman Tomomi Narita, 58, "lies in our complacency about the changing times." But the party stubbornly plans to hang on to its policies, hoping that the times will change to fit them. The effect has been to concede virtual one-party rule to Sato's Liberal Democrats at a time when Japan, now the world's third industrial power, sorely needs many voices to help...