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Passionately articulate on Quebec, Lévesque is intensely guarded in his private life. By temperament he is a loner with few close friends. Separated for the past six years from his wife, he lavishes attention on his three grown children. Born in the bucolic Gaspé Peninsula region of Quebec, Lévesque left law school in 1943 to serve with the U.S. Office of War Information as a European radio correspondent. In the 1950s he moved on to television and speedily became the most popular news commentator in Quebec. Lévesque's pouchy eyes, nervous mannerisms...
...quite a case of the honeymoon being over even before the marriage had been consummated. But as vacationing President-elect Jimmy Carter gazed out over the soothing marshlands of St. Simons Island off the coast of his native Georgia, pressure was building inexorably. Carter was the loner who had reached the presidency while insisting he owed nothing to any special interest. Yet quite a few groups, either because of their own successful election efforts or Carter's campaign promises, were plainly expecting to collect...
...Carter says, the blame or credit for the way he conducts his campaign must fall on Carter himself. He is a loner. He is not a man with a large circle of intimate friends and advisers. Among the very few people in whom he places anything like total confidence are Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell, Media Adviser Gerald Rafshoon, Administrative Aide Greg Schneiders, unpaid Adviser Charles Kirbo and, of course, Rosalynn. On the issues, he reaches out for opinions and advice from a remarkably broad and diverse group of people. For example, his coterie of economists ranges from those...
...outcome of the demonstration of 250 at the Longwood Quad was to make Davis a loner. The dean, the president, Davis's fellow faculty members and students all had denounced him. He, and anyone who believed in his arguments, would be characterized as racist nuts on a dangerous lunatic fringe...
...outcome of the demonstration of 250 at the Longwood Quad was to make Davis a loner. The dean, the president, Davis's fellow faculty members and students all had denounced him. He, and anyone who believed in his arguments, would be characterized as racist nuts on a dangerous lunatic fringe...