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...quite clearly, the strategy of his-and-her vacations, so often recommended for, and sometimes even beneficial to, marriages in distress. There was Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau slipping down the snowy slopes and flipping off the diving board at Utah's Snowbird mountain resort. And there was Wife Margaret, tripping through Boston's Logan Airport, her three young children in tow, on a visit to her sister in Winchester, Mass. Earlier, the P.M. had made a pilgrimage to that shrine sought by every world statesman-California's Disneyland. "My kids would have loved to see this...
TIME's economic-distress indicator, based on questions that gauge how many people feel they have been badly hurt by economic conditions, has stayed at 31%, almost exactly where it was during the last year of the Ford Administration. Only 33% of those surveyed have "a lot" of confidence in Carter's ability to handle the economy (but by comparison only 22% had similar confidence in Ford last October). More than half (54%) think inflation will stay the same-or perhaps get worse-during Carter's four years in office. Among the most pessimistic are Republicans...
...pastime, and Rolling Stone magazine is its chief practitioner in the rock music galaxy. Rolling Stone charts the position of the stars, focusing its telescope on the brightest novas and supernovas. One of its prime luminaries this year is Fleetwood Mac, a group characterized by professional success and personal distress. Since their 1975 bombshell Fleetwood Mac, Warner Brothers' all-time bestseller, three marriages inside the group have crumbled. Despite these marital problems, the beat goes on, as Fleetwood Mac has released a worthy follow-up album, appropriately entitled Rumours...
...disappoints me that even though we Canadians have aided you freezing Americans in such a time of distress, not one iota of coverage has been dedicated to our "deep-freeze." We're cold too, you know...
While a captive, Mme. Claustre said, she taught herself to read and write Toubou, the language of the rebels, and performed normal cooking and cleaning chores done by Toubou women. "They understood my distress," she said. "And I tried as much as I could to integrate myself into their family life...