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...grey Quebec villages, political meetings have a clannish, almost family atmosphere. Réal Caouette, 45, strides down the center aisle, chatting, shaking hands. A small, bespectacled man, he speaks rapidly in French Canadian patois, his jokes homey and telling. At meeting's end, as party workers pass cardboard ice cream containers for campaign contributions, he says to his audience of stubble-chinned farmers and somber-faced workmen: "Give if you can, but don't be shy if you can't. And if you really need some money, take...
...Esperanza's mother nor her older brothers and sisters. The love affair was stormy, filled with arguments and fights, and twice Esperanza went home to mother, each time swollen with child. Now, four years later, Esperanza and her two children live with her mother in a wood-and-cardboard shack, and she accepts her deserted, unwed state as quite natural. "She just had bad luck," says her mother. "It could happen to anyone...
...illusions about their foe. "The Ginza rats are terribly clever," said one old rodent fighter. "You can't just leave a meatball by a rathole and expect them to eat it. That's much too obvious. What you must do is put the meatballs in, say, a cardboard box with a little hole in it. Then the rat will eat it thinking it's something you don't want him to have...
...shooting, which took five weeks last fall at a cost of $400,000. The show opened with a word from the Ford Motor Co.-its new "command-performance cars" come "direct from Monaco"-and presently disclosed Princess Grace in a mustard suit perched on the top of a cardboard-looking crenelated tower. "Welcome to Monaco," said the Princess, and launched into some local history...
...that time Tomlinson, dressed in pink robe and wearing a home-made cardboard crown, sat on a portable aluminum throne, at the start of his second tour around the world to name himself king of 101 nations. Yesterday he appeared in the simple garb of a prophet, a blue suit, and lunched in Lowell House with several friends-including a junior he had crowned "prince of the realm" while last at the College...