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...nerve-racking because the government has chosen to run it slowly. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has entrusted direction of the economy to a respected but politically inexperienced professor, Raymond Barre, 53, whom he named both Prime Minister and Finance Minister in August 1976. The jovial, rotund Barre, who likes to describe himself as "a square man living in a round body," wrote the textbook used most often in French economics classrooms. Since he moved to his offices at the Hotel Matignon, Barre has applied textbook economics to France's problems. His austere "Plan Barre," announced...
...Balloons were the oldest airships, in fact and fantasy: Oz journeyed over the rainbow in a bag of green silk, and Phileas Fogg embarked on his 80-day voyage around the world dangling from a sphere of hot air. Today the sport of ballooning is enjoying a buoyant renaissance. Rotund flying machines with names like The Artful Dodger, Dante and Pollution Solution hover over golf courses and horse pastures, lifting the spirit and ornamenting the air-bright Christmas balls in the summer...
...member Cabinet to help solve his problems, Trudeau bumped out two party veterans and added seven new faces, including two women. External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen, a skillful party tactician, was transferred back to lead the currently disorganized Liberals in Parliament. In MacEachen's place, Trudeau appointed a rotund, voluble Newfoundlander named Donald Jamieson. His diplomatic experience is scant (his last post was Minister for Industry, Trade and Commerce), but Jamieson's known affection for the U.S. promises an improvement in the tone, at least, of U.S.-Canadian relations...
...Grade, chairman of Associated Television Corp., Ltd.: a life peerage. Rotund, cigar-chomping Grade, a Russian immigrant (ne Win-ogradsky), began life as a music-hall performer and became a prominent showbiz impresario...
...small, rotund figure climbed the 15 steps toward him, Pope Paul VI last week signaled his pleasure. He rose from the papal throne in the Vatican's audience hall, where he had just bestowed the three-cornered biretta upon 19 newly named members of the College of Cardinals. Then Paul stretched out his arms in welcome to the 20th candidate: Joseph Marie Cardinal Trinnhu-Khue, 76, Archbishop of Hanoi...