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...costume as spectacle. Her father's ventures prospered, and within the inward-turned circle of her family young Louise was completely indulged, the focus of two high-strung parents who, not always getting on with each other, loaded her with approval. "Being a female was never a handicap for me," she says. "I felt-I knew-that I could do anything I wanted...
...Britain's most eligible bachelor, Prince Charles produces front-page palpitations every time he is seen with a marriageable young woman. Until now, however, Buckingham Palace has kept a discreetly stiff upper lip when Fleet Street attempted to handicap the Prince's love life. Thus it was highly unusual when Queen Elizabeth II through her spokesman publicly denounced London's Sunday Mirror last month for a story linking the Prince and Lady Diana Spencer, 19, the winsome blond whom many Britons expect to be the next Queen. The Sunday Mirror's response was even more unusual...
...even an extraordinary intellect, dedicated humanist and man of compassion like Mother Charlie cannot erase Morning's greatest handicap: it is only half a competitor. The show runs opposite its two rivals from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. After that it gives way-extremely reluctantly, it should be added-to Captain Kangaroo, which has been entertaining preschool children for a quarter-century. Quips Kuralt: "If only we could resolve the serious artistic question of what to do with Captain Kangaroo...
...million in revenues) U.S. firm is paid about $47,-000 a year, but in Geneva his European counterpart would be paid $82,000, while his secretary would get $35,000. Besides crimping the living style of U.S. executives, Europe's high prices give their companies a serious handicap. Says M.C.E. Director Clement Livingstone: "The costs are deterring American business from investing and competing abroad...
Durgin has keyed an offensive line that has shunted aside defensive linemen with methodical regularity, despite the handicap of playing under five quarterbacks at one ime or another. Restic has also entrusted his line to protect those signal-callers, the precious cogs in his treasured Multiflex...