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...polished, quick-witted intellectual, an urbane man of the book rather than the gun. They would seem to have little in common, yet by the time Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau ended a three-day visit to Fidel Castro's Cuba last week, an obvious rapport had developed between the two leaders. As TIME's Ottawa bureau chief William Mader, who accompanied Trudeau, reported, the airport farewell ceremonies turned into a kind of emotional family affair as Castro embraced Trudeau, kissed his wife Margaret and cuddled their four-month-old baby. When asked at a Havana press...
...wasn't so much that I disliked the town--I just had difficulty relating to it. My relationship with my neighbors, the just-married Connallys, is an example. I didn't dislike the Connallys, but there was a distinct absence of rapport...
...muted and restrained than in the Broadway production--helps throw his expression of the need for individual passions into greater relief. She scolds him sharply for even thinking of not curing Alan, saying "I'll take your skills over his passions any time." By being less sympathetic--making the rapport between she and Dysart less open--Shaffer's play gains more substance...
...counsel, Squeaky has accepted the need for a trained co-counsel, but she rejected Public Defender E. Richard Walker as a man with whom she had "no rapport." MacBride then assigned her to Virga. The judge has let her speak up at all pretrial hearings, so long as the two co-counsel do not speak up at once. To prepare her case, Squeaky has been virtually exempted from jailhouse routine. She is also entitled to have access to law books. Squeaky's studies have doubtless turned up a further advantage to acting as her own lawyer: she can decline...
...beginning of the year Ford had almost no rapport with the team," one player said. He added, "This lack of communication with the coach, which has since been cleared up, meant that in the middle of the season we were still experimenting with positions and a style of play...