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...start mounting some opposition to my former self," he said. "I will not be the Pierre Elliott Trudeau I used to be." The demands of his new job will see to that. Rather than leggy young women, he suddenly found himself surrounded by burly bodyguards. Instead of driving his powder blue Mercedes, he is now being chauffeured in a Chevrolet. And at week's end, forgoing the usual victory parties, he went into seclusion "somewhere on the continent" to bone...
...Broke. Valente's machine brings technology to the old, time-consuming Italian process. Whole coffee beans are electrically ground into a fine powder. Just enough for one cup is dropped into the filter of the machine where it is packed tight under pressure. Then boiling water is pumped downward through the grounds-and out flows the potent black brew...
...last week in his black Mer cedes and pulled to a halt inside the barbed-wire compound that Viet Nam's national television station shares with the U.S. Armed Forces network stu dios. Inside, he settled himself behind a green-cloth-covered table, permitted a makeup man to powder his high forehead, but refused to straighten his loosely knotted tie. "It will look more nat ural," he said. Then the cameras rolled and the President of South Viet Nam delivered his first major policy address to the South Vietnamese people...
...kaleidoscopic colors of an oriental bazaar swirled through London's normally drab Heathrow Airport. Clutching bundles bulging with everything from jars of curry powder to television sets, turbaned men, sari-clad women and coffee-tinted youngsters stepped off planes from such diverse points as Cairo, Dar-es-Salaam and Athens. Most of their journeys began in Kenya, where they had sold their businesses at panic prices, paid scalpers' ransom rates for airline tickets and grabbed planes to any place that offered hope of a connecting flight to Britain. Thus last week, in a final, frantic stampede...
Died. William G. Mennen, 83, uncle of Michigan Politician G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, and longtime (1912-68) head of the Mennen Co.; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J. Taking over his father's modest baby-powder firm in 1912, Mennen quickly expanded into after-shave lotions, lathers-in-a-tube, hairdressings and deodorants, plowed profits back into mass-market advertising, until his family-owned company grew to take nearly 10% of what is now a $580 million men's cosmetic industry...