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...finished first in her class at George Washington University Law School. She taught at Howard University Law School, joined a top Washington law firm, served on the boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan, worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and became U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. But when a liberal Senator once implied that she was a member of the privileged class, she indignantly replied: "While there may be others who forget what it meant to be excluded from the dining room of this very building, I shall never forget...
...will be paid the same salaries they would have received as members of their national legislative bodies (which vary widely), plus travel allowances. These could prove to be considerable if the Parliament sticks to its plan to hold half its monthly plenary sessions in Strasbourg, the other half in Luxembourg and nearly all committee meetings in Brussels. But the political heavyweights are already chafing about that idea. Brandt, for one, in an initial show of parliamentary independence, declared that the seat for the new Parliament is its own business, "just as it is the most basic right of any family...
Among the candidates are some of Europe's most distinguished political figures. Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, a Social Democrat, is running the hardest, having campaigned not only at home but in France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy to boost the Socialist cause everywhere. In France, Gaullist Leader and former Premier Jacques Chirac, who opposes a supranational Europe, has turned the European election into something of a domestic contest to gauge his electoral strength against that of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, whom he will probably challenge for the presidency in 1981. The polls last week showed...
...good for her and always seemed to have a pop star handy when the photographers arrived." Her worried parents, ambitious to uphold a dynastic tradition that dates back seven centuries, scanned Europe for suitably aristocratic suitors. Prince Charles was rumored to be a favorite, and Prince Henri of Luxembourg would have made an ideal son-in-law. Neither seemed interested, and in any case, Caroline was more intrigued with a Parisian boulevardier 17 years her senior...
Princess Marie-Astrid of Luxembourg, whom Charles has hardly met, is most suitable, but this was never really on. Charles is prohibited by law from marrying a Roman Catholic. And for Marie-Astrid, a devout R.C., to renounce her faith would not be well received by a lot of people. Princess Grace's charming and amusing daughter is also a Roman Catholic, somewhat headstrong and getting married anyway. Nor do I think Charles will marry a German princess...