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...deciding who among the whos to invite, at $15 to $100 a ticket. There were a few slip-ups along the way. Ethel sent a shoe-box full of index cards for the guest list to Mrs. David Ginsburg, ticket chairman. Mrs. Ginsburg was slightly surprised to see "Trigger Mike" Coppola and "Tony Ducks'' Corallo on the list. And when she saw the name Hoffa, she "knew something was wrong." Indeed there was. Ethel had picked the wrong shoebox-the one with the cards compiled by Husband Bobby while he was counsel for the Senate's McClellan...
...shooting eye sharpened up on duck, hare and pigeon, Britain's Prince Charles, 13, sighted in on a stag herded into close range by royal drovers, gently squeezed the trigger of his rifle and bagged the beast on the very first try. Jolly good, puffed proud Papa Philip. "Dreadful and nasty," said Mrs. Jean Pyke, a member of England's League Against Cruel Sports. ''I'm not surprised," she huffed. "They have been teaching the boy to do horrible things like this. Perhaps it comes from King Henry VIII...
...internationally bred, and he will presumably make the Boston speak a more international tongue-well-modulated, clear and precise. Although a great orchestra does not change its accent overnight, the Boston played with wonderful clarity and precision last week, responding to Leinsdorf's tick-tock beat with hair-trigger reflexes. The orchestra was installed on risers introduced by Leinsdorf to get a better integrated sound, and it was apparent from front row to rear that the men were emotionally "up" as well-for their new conductor as much as for the new hall...
There is a slightly hollow ring to Governor Barnett's attempt to blame the Sunday night riots at the University of Mississippi on "inexperienced, nervous, and trigger-happy" Federal marshals. His pious requests for law and order have not undone the many years of demagoguery and defiance...
Perhaps the ideological dust and heat generated by this little island will long outlive any effort at rapprochements; perhaps the most violently committed elements of political life and the press will never forgive this Administration a moment of sanity in the madhouse they have helped create. But until the trigger is pulled, there is still hope for restraint...