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...answer to Ann Landers, Uganda's President-Dictator Idi Amin, has volunteered his interpretation of the marital split between Britain's Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon. Big Daddy expressed "sincere sympathy" over troubles in the royal couple's 16-year marriage, and declared that the breakup should "be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions, as husbands in such marriages can summarily be dismissed by their wives." Amin cabled his regrets to Snowdon in Australia, where the photographer kept busy last week with an exhibit...
MARGARET AND TONY TO PART? wondered the London Sun in banner headlines. Scarcely 24 hours after Harold Wilson's sudden resignation announcement, Britain's front pages were taken over by a zinging royal marital drama. At week's end a pair of terse announcements confirmed the breakup of the long-troubled 16-year marriage of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon. A clipped bulletin from Kensington Palace, the Snowdons' London residence, stated that the two "have mutually agreed to live apart. The princess will carry on her public duties unaccompanied by Lord Snowdon. There...
Margaret's increasingly public outings with Llewellyn apparently led to the long-building breakup. Humiliated and angry, Snowdon-friends said-wanted a divorce, which remains a problem for the royal family: the Queen is head of the Church of England, and the Church still considers marriage indissoluble. Where civil divorce occurs, remarriage in the church is refused. Thus Margaret's uncle, King Edward VIII, had to abdicate his throne in 1936 to marry "the woman I love," the American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, and Margaret had to forget Peter Townsend...
Udall said that "the biggest belts ought to be tightened," and called for a breakup of business conglomerates. Rather than using existing anti-trust laws, he called for a new statue that would require companies engaged in more than one area of business to break up into separate companies after two years...
...especially for her, gave her contractual rights to choose her roles, and scaled her pay up to levels comparable with those of guest performers, who sometimes get more than $2,000 a night. By all accounts, she really did leave A.B.T. for personal reasons. Upset for months about the breakup of her nine-year marriage to A.B.T. Principal Dancer Terry Orr, and confronted more recently by a new ballet season and a new relationship with another man, Gregory decided to abandon her 14-year career...