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Wherever the couple sets up house, Britons will be waiting to see if young Mark can bridle some of his bride's temperament. Though Anne can charm, she can also chafe. As one British court-watcher puts it: "She has imperious moods when that pendulous Windsor lower lip droops and the arrogance of centuries emerges." She has never enjoyed performing royal duties as much as her elder brother Prince Charles (who remains the world's most eligible royal single). She makes little attempt to disguise boredom. "I'm an expert on opening Kleenex factories and such...
Bonds That Chafe. The coming of World War II brought formidable changes in every area of social life, especially in the role of women. Entering the work force in massive numbers, they became visible-if not equal -competitors with men. Achieving an increasing degree of economic autonomy, many women found that marriage bonds that chafed could be snapped more easily than before. Meanwhile, Freud had become a household god, and the composition of the new trinity was the id, the ego and the superego. Armchair analysts lolled under many latitudinarian banners-Jung, Adler, Reich, Stekel, Krafft-Ebing, Sacher-Masoch...
...America. The losers of life still flock to Daytona Beach to drive cabs and lick their wounds in the sun; the winners arrive at Palm Beach in private yachts and jets to relieve the pressures. Cuban refugees come to Miami to make a new beginning, while a million blacks chafe at the newcomers' ability to take away their jobs by working for less pay. Retired citizens in Hawaiian shirts fill the benches at Sarasota, while migrant workers pass silently through the state in their circuitous search for work. The whole makes Florida something special; the parts reflect the full...
...White House Conference on Aging in Washington, he sounded like the man who had pledged to "bring us together" on the morrow of his 1968 election victory. The youngsters applauded his denunciation of "the insidious bigotry called age-ism," which leaves the young to "plod along in apprenticeship or chafe in alienation" and abandons the old to "draw Social Security, preferably well out of sight." The oldsters cheered his call for "a new national attitude toward aging," which "can end the 'throwaway psychology' " (see following story...
Agnew harbors sufficient independence to chafe sometimes at being programmed. "We have a stud here, a real stud," says an aide. "He has some thoughts of his own." Now he is being reined in, and he cannot like the feeling. For the short run, Agnew's future will turn upon the success of the new persona he is cultivating under Nixon's direction. The White House is now sending him forth in a more statesmanlike guise as ambassador-advocate for the Administration's domestic reforms. Thus last Agnew met-and was photographed with-Newark Mayor Kenneth...