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When they met, Elvis was 25, a sergeant stationed in Bad Nauheim, Germany, and she was 14, the daughter of an Air Force captain. Now, at 28, the former Mrs. Presley, Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, decided to break the silence that surrounded her strangely sequestered marriage with the multimillionaire singer. For four years of their seven-year courtship, Priscilla lived with Elvis' father and stepmother in Memphis, apparently being groomed for marriage. Elvis bought cars for her -"A little red Corvair, then a Chevrolet, a Toronado, an Eldorado and then the Mercedes"-and chauffeured her in a Lincoln Continental with...
Finally, in 1967, Elvis popped the question, even though, according to Priscilla, "we were perfectly content the way we were. At that time it wasn't nice for people to live together." They were married in May 1967, and Elvis filed for divorce last January. How has Priscilla explained the divorce to her daughter Lisa Marie, 5? "She thinks Daddy is on a business trip, so it works...
...correspondent based in London. Working with him as associate editor and senior writer will be Curtis Prendergast, a veteran chief of TIME'S Paris, Tokyo, Johannesburg and London News bureaus. David B. Tinnin joins the new staff from his post as a correspondent in our Europe bureau, and Priscilla B. Badger becomes head reporter-researcher. In New York, R. Edward Jackson, a former World writer, Rome bureau chief and deputy chief of correspondents, will serve as international editor, coordinating the new section with the rest of the magazine and planning further expansion overseas...
...parties and games she planned for us." Partly for this reason-and because she considered herself less attractive than the other children in the family-Margaret assumed, at age eight, the role of "stage manager of family festivals," making table decorations and arranging settings in which her sister Priscilla could show off her beauty, her brother Dick could sing and her sister Elizabeth could dance and play the piano...
...winner. Deprived of her original constituency by redistricting, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, 52, first tried to run for the 20th in the Democratic primary against a popular incumbent, William Fitts Ryan. She lost, but Ryan died shortly thereafter, and the Democratic Party chose Abzug as its candidate. Ryan's widow Priscilla immediately entered the race for her husband's seat on the Liberal ticket, and a bitter race was on. Ryan charged that Abzug is "not just a zero; she's a mi-nus." "Mickey Mouse," she said, "can do better." In return, Abzug claimed that her opponent had "no qualification...