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...Indeed, ex-fags point to benefits from fagging. "You learn how to command by learning how to obey," says one Old Etonian. Beyond that, a good senior, or "fag master," helps new boys find their way around the complex campus and sometimes becomes a lifelong friend. Recalls Sir John Hogg, 62, chairman of the Old Etonian Association: "I had an extraordinarily good fellow as one of my fag masters. Our contact bridged an age gap in a very successful way." Then too, fagging at Eton created a great many social distinctions that are a British specialty. For example, "tea fags...
...sick leave. In practice, different commanders make different decisions. An Army colonel, just back from Korea, said pregnant soldiers "were making the forced marches with all their equipment." Yet some officers try to get such women out of the way early. Says Rear Admiral James R. Hogg, of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations: "The bottom line is, we'll get her transferred before she becomes a burden to her shipmates...
...military seems to be coping well enough with the pregnancy problem. Few officers think it has much effect on efficiency, and most seem ready with a stiff-upper-lip comment. Says one American general in Germany: "It has never impacted on readiness." Rear Admiral Hogg thinks the Navy is just as shipshape with mothers on board. Says he: "The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman...
BORN. To Lord Snowdon, 49, English photographer whose 19-year marriage to Princess Margaret ended in divorce in May 1978, and the Countess of Snowdon, 37, the former Lucy Lindsay-Hogg: a daughter, her first child and his third...
MARRIED. Lord Snowdon, 48. who received his title one year after he married Britain's Princess Margaret; and Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, 37, researcher for Associated Television, who will now be known as the Countess of Snowdon; both for the second time; in London. A photographer, Antony Armstrong-Jones met Lindsay-Hogg in Australia four years ago when they worked together on a BBC documentary...