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There were some gloomy predictions about what might happen if the left won a majority of the popular vote but did not get at least half of the 491 Assembly seats. The result, former Premier Pierre Mendès France, a Socialist, warned last week, could be "chaos." Said he: "It would be an affront to the country to impose a government against the people's will." Barre's reply was blunt: "I don't understand Mendès France's argument. The same Frenchmen will vote in both rounds. There's an old saying...
...what's needed. Perception is." She advises the ailing to be candid as well but reminds them of Hemingway's definition of courage as "grace under pressure." To relieve physical discomfort, she encourages friends to help on the simplest level: "Cook a meal, do the dishes, mend what needs to be mended, water the plants, answer the phone." To a woman who had refused to discuss her cancer with her husband, she said: "The fact is, you are bearing [your illness] now, but alone, which is infinitely more painful than if shared." What to say to cancer victims...
...broke, why should I worry?" In fact, Pan Am seems likely to survive. After eight years of losses caused by a recession-induced downturn in international air travel at a time when it had spent heavily on new jumbo jets, the airline is now apparently on the mend and has reported its first profits for the month of May since...
OPEC's decision not to make the July 1 boost was part of a compromise to mend the schism. For their part, the Saudis and the Emirates will boost their prices to the general OPEC level (whether all at once or in stages still was not clear at week's end). Though that means oil will cost more in the second half of this year than in the first, the winners were clearly the Saudis-and to some extent consumers. The Saudis are fond of pointing out that if everybody settles now at 10%, the price of Middle...
...that the energy situation is worse .than "fairly serious." Reported TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, who has covered Congress for more than a quarter-century: "It's going to be tough for a Congressman to vote to punish his constituents when they can't see why. Historically, Americans don't mend the roof when the sun is shining, so there's reason for skepticism on whether Congress will go along with the President...