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Bachelor Trudeau drives a fast sports car, skis, skindives, holds a judo brown belt and dresses in a highly individualistic style; he was once reprimanded by ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker for wearing a sports shirt and ascot in Parliament. But he is also a widely traveled law professor and economist and -very important-a bilingual Québecois who gets along as well at the mannerly teas of the English-speaking majority as at mercurial political rallies in Quebec and Montreal. A firm opponent of separatism, Trudeau believes that the only way to discourage it is to make French...
...Crybaby. Something had to give. When Recruit Douglas Ratliff punched him in the jaw during a judo class, Johnson, who ranked first in physical fitness, struck back. No one broke up the scuffle until Johnson decked Ratliff, who took three stitches for a cut lip. Ratliff was asked to resign for breaking a strict no-fighting rule. Blasher was forced out because of his "attitude"-though he was first in the class scholastically. Impulsively, Johnson resigned in protest, charging that Blasher had been bounced because of his friendship for him. Blasher, who had spent a year on the Los Angeles...
...Ceremony smacked of the Kama Sutra in slow motion, as the dancers' bodies were juxtaposed in a complex series of stately tableaux. The maneuvers, however, were less sensual than static-and, accompanied as they were by a chilling, unromantic score, seemed as moving as a set of judo diagrams...
...each store and a company-wide central council, a dialogue is kept going between management and "partners." The company also spends some $500,000 a year on cultural subsidies (half-price tickets to Covent Garden and the Old Vic) and such perks as clubs (30, from gardening to judo) and low-cost holidays in the company-owned Brownsea Castle at Poole Harbor...
...response to the inadequacies of the Boston schools, Youth Alliance has started classes in photography, history of minorities, and judo-karate. Alliance is trying to establish its own programs for high-school equivalency diplomas, leadership training, sex education, and job training...