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LUIGI BARZINI, Italian author: Three Italian leaders, fused into one man, could be useful today. The greatest is Julius Caesar, penniless patrician, demagogue, traitor to his class, brilliant lawyer, writer, invincible general, creator of an empire. After him, Lorenzo de' Medici, banker, merchant, poet, who ruled Florence with a firm hand. He invented the balance of power to keep the quarrelsome Italian states at peace. Then Camillo Benso di Cavour, farmer, financier, journalist, businessman, who turned tiny Sardinia into the kingdom of Italy in a matter of months...
Gittis becomes involved with an amiable patrician (John Huston), a gentleman rancher whose face is creased with forced jollity, a stranger to scruple. His daughter (Faye Dunaway), the water commissioner's widow, is troubled and dangerous, and Gittis falls for her. But whether he is really drawn to her or only uses her to advance his investigation is never made clear. The widow's part is a plum, and Dunaway does well with it whenever she relaxes and stops pushing, stops acting. A lot of her scenes are meant to be played big, however, and for these Dunaway...
MICHEL PONIATOWSKI, 52, Minister of State and Minister of Interior. "Ponia," as he is known everywhere, is Giscard's closest friend and crony in or out of the government. A patrician with royal Polish ancestry-one of his forebears was a marshal in Napoleon's army-Ponia-towski has known Giscard since student days, and he is distantly related to Giscard's wife. He helped Giscard set up his Independent Republican Party in 1966. Well before Pompidou's death, Poniatowski had worked quietly to line up the centrist parties' support that proved so crucial...
...often been said by his friends that from childhood on, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was condemned to succeed. He was born with the gifts of good looks and intellectual brilliance from a patrician background. Almost effortlessly, he rose to become one of France's youngest and most powerful Finance Ministers. A few days before his election as President of France, Giscard granted an exclusive interview to TIME Correspondent George Taber. Relaxing over a snack of Roquefort cheese and champagne aboard the Mystere executive jet that he used during the campaign, Giscard discussed his foreign policy...
...IMAGE AS AN ALOOF ARISTOCRAT. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a patrician, and Kennedy was a multimillionaire. In the U.S., they represented an idea of progress, and both-Roosevelt especially-led a major reform movement, so one should not be taken in by labels that politicians give one another. Anyone who follows my campaign will see that I have no difficulty in obtaining popular support. In France, people know very well whether you are self-seeking or not, and as they have been observing me for some time, they know that this is not the case with...