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...Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, and each tried to persuade the other to jump into the race. Scranton said he would be simply "delighted" if Romney would run. Romney said, "I would be delighted if Governor Scranton would." All in all, said Scranton afterward, "it was sort of an Alphonse and Gaston act." The only trouble with that kind of act is that it can be kept up too long...
...France last week, as in the U.S., the presidential campaign was hotting up. The Socialist candidate, Marseille's handsome, able Mayor Gaston Defferre, 53, got solid party backing at a congress held in Clichy, north of Paris. Defferre went swiftly on the attack, accusing the Gaullist government of failures in education, housing and road building, and claiming that these objectives could best be met with "Horizon '80," his 15-year plan for strengthening France from...
...offices of Le Provencal, where he serves as the newspaper's director. His chauffeured car is equipped with a hooded light so that he can read dispatches without disturbing the driver's vision. Fitting a presidential campaign into so rigid a schedule seems simple to hard-driving Gaston Defferre. "It is all," he says, "a question of organization...
...Gaston Lachaise had a way with women. At his touch, they stirred and swelled, breasts and bellies billowing. Women were plaster in his hands. Sculptures all, they are currently on exhibition at Los Angeles' County Museum of Art, part of the largest collection ever assembled of the late artist's works. A harem in stone and metal, they remind a world obsessed with Pop not to forget about...
...Marseille, where Defferre lives with his attractive wife Marie-Antoinette in a villa overlooking the harbor, politics can be as rough as in Chicago. Handsome, greying Gaston Defferre plays rough when necessary but is mostly interested in results. During his ten years as mayor, Marseille, France's second largest city (pop. 778,000), has balanced its budget, won the national blue ribbon for housing construction, and set up long-range city planning that may become a national model...