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...prove it she took a turn or two around the floor of the Ford's private White House quarters last week with Canadian Photographer Yousuf Karsh. During a 3½ hr. portrait session, Karsh caught Betty in a reflective pose after he told her that his Ottawa home is called Little Wings. She promptly produced a small Boehm porcelain-bird figurine from among the household possessions. After his own portrait session, President Ford asked Karsh to get in touch the next time he visits Palm Springs, Calif., where the Fords have decided to spend their retirement. They sold their...
Masterly Campaign. The results stunned the entire country. From Ottawa, Pierre Elliott Trudeau-a Quebecker and a bitter enemy of separatism -immediately appeared on nationwide television, grimly asserting that "Mr. Lévesque and his party have been granted a mandate to form a government in the province, not to separate that province from the rest of the country. I can only assume the Parti Québécois will govern while respecting the letter and spirit of the Canadian constitution...
...vesque claims he arrived at separatism "bit by bit, without even noticing." But his breaking point with the Liberals came in 1967, shortly after Charles de Gaulle outraged Ottawa with his famous cry of "Vive le Québec libre!" Lévesque was squashed by the party after he presented a plan for more social, economic and political autonomy for Quebec within an altered Canadian union...
...less likely candidate for stardom in Boston than Steven James Grogan would be hard to find. Bostonians, proper or improper, are accustomed to outsize heroes with outsize skills-Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Bobby Orr and, yes, even Jim Plunkett. The quiet, country-bred young man from Ottawa, Kansas (pop. 11,000), resembles none of these demigods; yet he has already begun to exert his own spell on the Hub, its congeries of suburbs and that state of mind known as New England. For beneath his placid exterior, a competitive fire burns. Says Patriot Coach Chuck Fairbanks, who saw it early...
Steve Grogan, 23, came into town last year with as much hoopla and advance warning as fog in Boston Harbor, a fifth-round draft pick from Kansas State. He was an all-round athlete back home in Ottawa, but even then he was never with a winner. Says he: "There were four elementary schools in town and each one had a team. One school always had the biggest team, and it wasn...