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...dull, gray morning in Bucharest. Two citizens enter a district city hall to exchange perfunctory "Da's " as required by law. Switch to Technicolor. Tennis Ace Bjorn Borg, in a blue blazer, no headband, and his love of four years, Rumanian Pro Mariana Simionescu, step outside into the bright sunlight and a cheering crowd of 2,000. Among them are 50 members of the Rumanian National Tennis Federation, who raise flower-bedecked racquets in a ceremonial arch. Kiss, smile, applause. Exeunt the couple in a Swedish Saab. Scene 2-Religious Ceremony. An unruly mob awaits the Borgs' arrival...
...real differences between Bush and Reagan are in style and manner. The son of a Connecticut banker and Senator, educated at Andover and Yale, frequently dressed in rep tie and blazer, Bush is the very embodiment of the Eastern Republican Establishment that many of Reagan's rougher-hewn followers detest. Thirty-two years in Texas, where he made a fortune now estimated at more than $1.8 million in the oil business, have left no trace of the Sunbelt in his voice or manners. As a Congressman (1967-70) who later served brief terms as Ambassador to the U.N., chairman...
...accompanying piece about the president's Republican rivals catches Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford "stroll(ing) out of their meeting near the 13th hole of the Thunderbird Country Club in Palm Springs..." Ford, always a clothes horse, was "smiling and relaxed in a blue blazer and beige slacks," A story on ghetto problems discusses a "black former newpaper publisher in a gray pinstripe suit." The "People" section of this weekly reveals that when Idi Amin walks down the strets of Saudi Arabia "he wears the shapeless white thobe gown and ghutra headcloth...
...last March, Gerald Ford had described Ronald Reagan as "unelectable." But as they strolled out of their meeting near the 13th hole of the Thunderbird Country Club in Palm Springs last week, Ronnie and Jerry looked as if they had been lifelong pals. Smiling and relaxed in a blue blazer and beige slacks, Ford called the talks "very, very constructive." Said he: "We are establishing a relationship that is vitally important. I pledge myself to campaign wholeheartedly...
...auto industry clearly needs help in settling critical labor issues as it struggles to upgrade the quality of cars and to replace its gas guzzlers with a new generation of fuel-efficient models. Moreover, Eraser's new post could prove a trail blazer for management-labor relations in other American industries, ensuring that the worker's viewpoint gets an adequate hearing at executive levels. Says he: "Maybe the adversary relationship is precisely what is wrong with the American labor movement." In any case, Eraser's trial run in Chrysler's red brick headquarters in Highland Park...