GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Flush

The Duke of Norfolk, the Archbishop of Canterbury and 350 Officers of the Gold Staff who will act as ushers at the Abbey Ceremony, last week made a tour of 100 toilets in remodeled Westminster Abbey. These have been specially built for the convenience of Britain's aristocracy privileged to remain in the Abbey without a chance of escape for six and one-half hours. A jesting officer of the Gold Staff ordered all the cisterns to be tested together. As a workman obeyed the command, the Archbishop protested: "Tut, tut, that will never...

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