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...speaker for the masses," notes Harvard University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, a longtime observer of French politics. "He's not exactly the warmest person either." Even on television-where his confidence and lucidity come across best-Giscard cannot shake what many see as a handicap-a quasi-aristocratic background, suggested by the "d'Estaing" suffix borrowed from an extinct noble family. "Two centuries after the revolution, the French still don't like aristocrats," says a Paris banker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Giscard Runs Scared | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Running broad jump handicap-A. Brown, P. A. C. (3 feet), first; with an actual limp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men at the Manhattan Athletic Games. | 5/12/1890 | See Source »

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