Word: glamoured
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...seemed just the man to lead his divided nation into a new age. He was a brilliant teacher of law, a respected liberal reformer, a trendy bachelor. Even in the U.S., which usually pays little more attention to Canadian politics than to the Albanian economy, Trudeau's Gallic glamour had its effect, possibly because Americans had such lackluster candidates of their...
...wouldn't consider hiring anyone over 30," the founder of the National Student Marketing Corp. was hardly a hirsute radical himself. In five years, he worked himself up to a Lear Jet and a $600,000 Virginia horse-country estate by tapping the youth market and using its glamour to make money on the stock market. Then the paper profits suddenly vanished. Last week N.S.M. stock had sunk to $3 from December's high of $72, the Securities and Exchange Commission was looking into insider dealings, and some blue-chip Wall Street firms that had been involved were...
...last week's advance. On the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 6½ points this week, a gain of 40 points from its seven-year low of 744 on Jan. 30. The rally has been notable for its lack of speculative froth. Many glamour stocks have behaved erratically, up one day, down the next, while blue chips have surged ahead. General Motors, for example, gained $3 a share last week and long-depressed General Electric...
...Even sisters bound by solemn vows of chastity "until death" have been able to get dispensations with relative ease. And for a girl trained as a teacher or nurse, the transition to secular status was relatively painless. Leaving today "is a simple matter," says Midge Turk, college editor of Glamour magazine and an Immaculate Heart sister until 1966. ''A nun writes to the Pope. says please-give-me-a-dispensation-because-I-can-no-longer-function-in-this-life, and she almost automatically gets a prompt notification of release from her vows." But there is the fashion syndrome. One former...
...power, status or constantly renewable youth. But amid declining auto sales and a new public preoccupation with pollution, congestion and cost, some of the industry's leaders have concluded that the love affair has cooled. They believe that their market has changed, fundamentally and permanently. "I think the glamour of the automobile is decreasing," Henry Ford II told TIME Correspondent Peter Vanderwicken. "People are looking at it now as a machine to get from place to place to do something else...