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Boxing Lessons. That is the only struggle of note that Pierre Trudeau has experienced. He grew up in the affluent Montreal suburb of Outrement, the son of a self-made millionaire whose empire included an auto-breakdown service and a chain of gas stations. (Today, the family fortune is estimated at $7,000,000.) Young Pierre was driven to school by a chauffeur, as a boy was given private boxing lessons "because I was quite a puny child." Trudeau's father died when he was 14, and the loss saddened him for years. He went to a Jesuit college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Man of Tomorrow | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...private life." Trudeau and his family-and his former girl friends-have a sort of conspiracy of silence on the subject of his social activities. Trudeau says that he is very close to his aging mother, with whom he lived in the family's large brick house in Outrement until about three years ago. When asked why he has never married, he once replied: "I've never been asked, but this is leap year, and I'm still young." Trudeau's friends think that he will eventually marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Man of Tomorrow | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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