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...wage gains of the decade, and, among their Common Market peers, French workers lead the way both in the number of hours spent on the assembly line and in enduring the highest national cost of living. Though he made less money several years ago, Citroen Worker Pierino Fausti, a bachelor, says he used to be able to go to the local dances and meet girls whom he could then afford to seduce in the grand and proper French style. "Well, I can't any more. Now, it's no drinks, no food, no coffee, just straight...
...takes the form of a series of monologues ranted by a patient at his psychoanalyst. The patient is a 34-year-old bachelor named Alexander Portnoy, high-school honor student from Newark, first in his law-school class, and now assistant human-rights commissioner in New York City. At first glance, the chronicle of Portnoy's pain, rooted as it is in Jewishness and the urban environment, may appear to have only specialized appeal, but Roth gives it a universality that reaches beyond ethnic boundaries. It is a coda of rage and savagely honest self-lashing reminiscent...
...year old bachelor's sudden rise to power comes while he is still almost entirely unknown both to the Canadian people and to the incumbent Liberal Party which elected him. What is certain is that he has youthfulness and charisma, and it appears that these were the qualities that the Liberals were looking for when they met in Ottawa three weeks ago to choose a successor to 70-year old Lester B. Pearson, who had announced his retirement last winter...
...same time, Bachelor Trudeau set out to shed his image as a carefree ladies' man and swinger. "I expect to start mounting some opposition to my former self," he said. "I will not be the Pierre Elliott Trudeau I used to be." The demands of his new job will see to that. Rather than leggy young women, he suddenly found himself surrounded by burly bodyguards. Instead of driving his powder blue Mercedes, he is now being chauffeured in a Chevrolet. And at week's end, forgoing the usual victory parties, he went into seclusion "somewhere on the continent...
...attractive, wealthy intellectual and bon vivant who zips around in a Mercedes 300 SL sports car and goes in for strenuous sports (skin diving, skiing, brown belt in judo). He favors a far-out wardrobe that includes pastel shirts, trilby hats and green leather overcoats. He is a bachelor, and his fondness for pretty women is no secret. Considering these attributes, the last thing one would expect him to be is a politician, especially in Canada. Yet that is Pierre Elliott Trudeau's most recent profession. At 46, after only three years in Parliament and one year as Minister...