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Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia, to see the total eclipse of the sun . . . You're so vain.-Carly Simon, singing the rock hit You're So Vain...
...married daughter and a son older than Trudeau's wife Margaret (who is 24), as well as two younger daughters. Stanfield's first wife was killed in an automobile crash in 1954; his second wife Mary is the daughter of a former justice of Nova Scotia. With the children scattered, the Stanfields have been living quietly in Ottawa at Stornoway, the official residence of Canada's Opposition Leader. His favorite pastime is gardening ("It's good for the soul"), but Stanfield also enjoys the theater. When he saw Hair in Toronto a couple of years...
...editor of the prestigious Law Review. A wealthy man, he inherited a fortune from his family's underwear-manufacturing business. Though he is no longer personally associated with the firm, political cartoonists continue to sketch him in long Johns. After practicing law and spending eight years as Nova Scotia's opposition leader, Stanfield served as the province's Premier for 11 years...
Such gaffes might have been politically disastrous for Trudeau if he were not pitted against the Canadian whom many would vote most difficult to elect. Robert Stanfield, 58, an able former Premier of Nova Scotia, is eminently qualified for the job of Prime Minister, in every particular except political flair. He seems to be everybody's fumbling, bumbling "Uncle Bob," a gray personality whose speeches seldom arouse the electorate. A traveling rock band and miniskirted "Stanfield Girls" have been recruited to add color to his campaign -but they are not enough...
HOBBIES: Raises jock straps at his Grandfather's farm in Nova Scotia during his off season time--the first and second weeks in August...