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...freelance photographers, Fred Ward, the event had a particular impact. Says he: "Suddenly the entire atmosphere changed. People who hadn't smiled in years were smiling-everyone was smiling!" Ward decided to try to capture the new mood in the capital through images of the happy, informal Ford household itself. The President took to the idea. Remarkably unself-conscious about being photographed, he granted Ward the rare privilege of following his every move for two months last fall...
...doesn't give it away, the articles on how to buy a sewing machine, or on Buffy Sainte-Marie, or the photographs of Andre Malraux and Jean Cocteau will. This magazine is for the wealthy, skinny, urban woman who probably has a job as well as a husband and household, but also has enough money and freedom of choice to appreciate articles on "How to choose the right child-care program." Of course, Ms. has been building up to this image for a long time. October's issue discussed the crucial question of whether it is possible...
...afloat in the style to which it has become accustomed-upkeep of the Britannia alone averages $19,000 a day. At issue was the Queen's request for an increase, from $2.3 million to $3.3 million, in the Civil List, the government-provided allow ance for the royal household. Although Parliament balked before approving a 50% raise for the Queen in 1972, the traditional spirit of gallant largesse was even more pointedly missing last week...
Newly elected Tory Party Leader Margaret Thatcher defended the expenditures on the grounds that the monarchy is "our most precious asset." Others, though, are beginning to see it differently. Said Labor M.P. James Wellbeloved during the floor debate: "In my household, and in every other, there is another sovereign, the housewife, who is struggling to keep her family afloat in the turbulent sea of inflation. We must prevent people like this from becoming resentful of the institution that leads them." For some M.P.s, however, the reaction of Britain's housewives was of less concern than the reaction of Britain...
...residents enjoy the advantages of off-campus living--cheapness, varied and vegetarian food, non-academic surroundings and a togetherness rarely felt in Harvard dining halls--while avoiding the feeling of isolation from a student community that off-campus residents often experience. After sharing the responsibilities of maintaining a large household, the members have developed an insulation from some tensions of the larger Harvard community, an attitude of amused tolerance toward the way most Harvard students choose to live, and an attachment to their own small group which at the outset partially excludes all outsiders...