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...such indignation (in your April 6 Letters column) over Queen Elizabeth removing her wrap unassisted ... I am sure a request [to the Duke of Edinburgh] in the form of a discreet nudge in the ribs would have brought him to her instant...
...office was Pérez Jiménez' own private Parliament, hand-picked last November after an embarrassingly bobbled election in which the returns ran so strongly against his candidates that he had to clamp on a three-day censorship and doctor the electoral count to wrap himself in the much-desired cloak of legality...
...Malcolm G. Jones is an executive who keeps his eye on the clock. "When you reach my age," says he, "time starts running out. You want to meet a challenge and wrap it up, so that when you put your chips down, you can say, 'that's one I did.' " Last week, after 24 years with the Du Pont Co., the last two as director of synthetic fiber sales, Malcolm Jones went off to meet a new challenge-the chance to "run my own show." He became president of Manhattan's Robbins Mills, Inc., maker...
Royal Manners Sir: Your March 16 picture of Queen Elizabeth II removing her own wrap was disgusting . . . You called it "a moment of royal informality"; I call it plain old bad manners. Let's hope the American male doesn't take stock in this incident. They are already prone to be lax . . . As for the Duke of Edinburgh, I'm sure he must know better. SALLY HAWKINS Los Angeles...
...member of our local high-school football squad would have helped the Queen with her wrap, and possibly would have given her a little pat on the back afterwards. We certainly would have slapped the Duke down in the meantime. E. C. McMULLEN Pine Bluff...