Word: sacha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daddy, put on your running shoes," suggested four-year-old Michel Trudeau logically. After all, Pierre Trudeau had just told sons Michel, Justin and Sacha and the rest of Canada something that had been anticipated since Conservative Prime Minister Joe Clark's government lost a vote of confidence two weeks ago. With a general election scheduled for Feb. 18, three-time P.M. Trudeau was ending his brief political retirement to lead the Liberals once again. Before the campaign gets into gear, there is another urgent party matter: Christmas birthdays for both of Michel's brothers. Justin will...
...impact of his comely wife Margaret. The daughter of a Vancouver businessman and former Liberal Cabinet Minister, Margaret, 25, shunned public exposure after her marriage to Trudeau in 1971. She preferred the quiet domestic life-skiing and pack trips with Pierre, caring for their sons Justin, 2½, and Sacha, six months-but decided after Trudeau's near-defeat in 1972 that this time she should take a more active campaign role. Lately Margaret, with her elfin smile and insouciant ways, has been wowing crowds from Quebec to British Columbia-delivering informal talks in English and French, balancing...
...Terrail's Tour, the menu is not all that commands attention. As Sacha Guitry, the French playwright, observed, "You go to La Tour d'Argent to dine. Once there, you look" at the scene. Shirley Temple Black, unable to flag a cab on a rainy day, was conveyed to the restaurant by gallant gendarmes in a Black Maria. Terrail also relates that a distinguished Roman Catholic prelate, Monsignor Fernand Maillet, loved late dinners at La Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says...
...Trudeau announced the name of his newborn son. He said he had selected Emmanuel (Hebrew for God with us), while his wife had chosen Alexandre, "after the saint, the Czar or the Pope-take the one you want," joked Trudeau, adding that the baby would be known simply as Sacha...
...cancer; in Paris. His real name was Fernand Contandin, but he preferred "just one name. Like Napoleon." He won an amateur singing contest in 1928, eleven years later was voted the most popular screen personality in France. His lantern jaw and Grand Canyon grin once prompted Actor Sacha Guitry to inquire with impeccable Gallic politeness: "Has anyone ever told you, monsieur-how odd-that you look like a horse...