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The article focuses on the wedding ceremony of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, the wife of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and Aristotle Socrates Onassis in Greece in October 1968. It states that the marriage has earned several reactions in the U.S., in which many were disturbed that Kennedy has married out of her church and culture. Furthermore, several theories regarding Kennedy's motivations to wed Onassis such as money and her need of a father image are discussed.

The article focuses on the semimonarchial wedding of Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, and Patrick Nugent at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception's Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. It states that Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle has officiated the Nuptial Mass and co-celebrated with two priests William Kaifer and John Kuzinskas. There were about 3,500 guests and visitors attended the said event and were accommodated at White House.

The article focuses on the marriage of Tricia Nixon, who is daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon. The marriage would be a White House wedding and the fourth presidential wedding in last five years. It focuses on the groom, Ed Cox, who was a liberal Republican. It states that the couple does not want their marriage to be public and preferred to privacy. The couple allowed media to cover the marriage but not the ten minute main ceremony and also restricted live telecast of the marriage on television.

The article features Prince Philip, the husband of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, who will accompany the queen in a royal diplomatic mission to restore the country's warm relation with the U.S. It states that Philip, who is a son of Prince Andrew of Greece, grows in Paris, France and becomes a naval lieutenant in Melbourne, Australia. It says that he studies as a commoner at Gordonstoun in his preparatory and has also entered in Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England.

The article focuses on the Nuri Assaid, the 13 times Prime Minister of Iraq. It states that despite Assaid has resigned in his term of office, he still remain as dominant figure of the country and remains as the Middle east's senior Arab statesman. It says that he faces an unequal rivalry for Arab leadership with Egyptian statesman Gamal Abdel Nasser. It adds that Nuri manages their country's affairs through dictatorship, but having indifference to opinions.

The article reports on the growth of construction projects in Manhattan, New York City. As of mid-December 1953, there are 965 new buildings valued at an estimated 417 million dollars that were built in Manhattan, 32 of which were constructed in 1953 alone. Also constructed in the area are housing projects, including the three new housing projects by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

The article focuses on the life and works of Jerome David Salinger, the American writer who wrote the novel "The Catcher in the Rye." It presents an analysis on how Salinger portrayed his characters including Holden Caulfield in the "The Catcher in the Rye" and the Glass family in his new book "Franny and Zooey." Particular focus is also given to Salinger's choice of living in recluse to focus on his creativity and his marriage with English-born Claire Douglas.

The article points out that while Iran needs the assistance of the U.S., the State Department has failed to keep the promises made to the Iranians and that this country is slipping away as an ally of the U.S. It is observed that Radio Teheran no longer broadcasts the Voice of America and the Soviet-Iran trade treaty worth 20 million dollars had been signed on November 3, 1950. The author stresses the strategic importance of Iran to the Soviet Union, particularly in accessing oil.

The article offers world news briefs in 1974. It reports on the issuance of the emigration visas of Kirov Ballet dancer Valery Panov and his ballerina wife Galena Panov allowing them to migrate to Israel. It announces the reunion of Edith Irving, who served a prison term in Switzerland, and Clifford Irving, who was in a U.S. jail, in Manhattan, New York. It notes that Miguel Pinero will become the first Puerto Rican playwright in Broadway.

The article presents previews of television programs, plays and books. Television programs include "Aladdin," "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and "Public Broadcast Laboratory." Theatrical productions include "The Birthday Party" and "Iphigenia in Aulis." The article also lists bestseller books including "The Confessions of Nat Turner," "Christy" and "Our Crowd."

The article focuses on the events in the wedding ceremony of Luci Baines Johnson, the first daughter of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, and Patrick John Nugent from Waukegan, Illinois. It notes that the wedding allowed no television or radio reporters to interfere in the solemn ceremony with 700 guests including the members of the Cabinet and leaders of Congress. The Nuptial Mass authorized by Pope Paul VI, the honeymoon destination, and the educational plans of the couple are also discussed.

The article offers information on the marriage of Princess Anne, the daughter of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and her commoner cavalryman Captain Mark Phillips in the Gothic splendor of Westminster Abbey in London, England. It states that the ceremony was performed by the Most Reverend Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury. It notes that at the venue, there was a flourish of trumpets from the Queen's Dragon Guards. Meanwhile, Richard Vokey, a merchant banker, states that the greatest aspect on the wedding was it helps people to keep their minds from bad news.

Focuses on the invasion of privacy by the tabloid newspapers during the wedding ceremony between U.S. aviator Charles A. Lindbergh with American writer Anne Morrow in the U.S. Exploitation of personalities; Media coverage of the Morrow home despite the guarded announcement of the marriage rite; Scrutiny of the celebrity; Criticism of Lindbergh by the newspaper men; Omission of certain classes of news by the periodicals; Vulgarity of the delicate period of their victims' lives.

Focuses on the methods and results of the activities of marriage broker Town and Country Matrimonial Agency in Canada. Matrimonial qualifications; Membership fee; Demography of members; Propinquity of the sexes; Queries to be answered on an application form; Consensus of opinion as to the qualities which one sex regarded as desirable in the other; Requirements of the male and female clients.

The article reviews several films including "The Member of the Wedding," starring Brandon de Wilde and Ethel Waters, "Come Back, Little Sheba," starring Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth, and "Stars and Stripes Forever," starring Clifton Webb.

The article talks about a wedding in Poland. It was the preliminary festivities of an orthodox Jewish wedding in pre-war Russian Poland. The prelude is staged in the spacious parlor of the bride's home in a typical provincial town in the midst of the warm colors and dramatic setting dictated by the hallowed traditions of the race. The bridesmaids are here in force, giving the final touches to the central tableau in which the leading character, the bride, is sitting in state on the chair of honor in the glory of her bridal gown. She is sitting here under the admiring gaze of the guests awaiting the veiling ceremony. The wedding band of provincial musicians are here to a man, lined up around the bride with their instruments in position.

The article features the television program "Bride & Groom," produced by John Nelson, which selects couples to be married before an estimated 2 million television audience. Nelson has received over 70,000 letters from lovers, telling him about their romances in the hope that they will be selected to be married on the program. The selected couples win a free, week-long honeymoon, the loan of a Pontiac and a host of other gifts. By far, the television weddings have been officiated only by rabbis and Protestant clergymen.

The article reviews several films including "Royal Wedding," starring Fred Astaire, "The Groom Wore Spurs," starring Jack Carson, and the semi-documentary drama "Fourteen Hours."