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Arctic Issue. Some disenchantment was inevitable. More and more Canadians are beginning to learn, however, that while Trudeau occasionally behaves like a 50-year-old playboy, more often he comes on as a sober, responsible leader. Canadians thought that the Prime Minister's official house at 24 Sussex Drive might become a rendezvous for jet-set types. It is busy, all right, but as a member of Trudeau's Liberal Party describes it: "Labor leaders on Thursday. Next week businessmen. Maybe a royal commission. Hardly swinging...
...looked up at the modern paintings which glared incongruously like colorful Rorshach inkblots from the walls of the Faculty Club dining room. Singer seemed at home in the sober stateliness of the wood-pancled room with its immense chandclier. He might have been an old alumnus returning to recapture an earlier cra, but his marvelous Yiddish accent spoke of a childhood spent elsewhere. Delicately rolled r' s and full-bodied gultural consonants played hide-and-seck among the alien diphthougs of American English. Singer spoke slowly and clearly, sometimes hesitating over a word, rejecting it, and choosing another...
...Israel. As individuals or as a community, they certainly had every right to express their feelings about the French President's pro-Arab views. But is it sound tactics or proper behavior for any group of U.S. citizens to insult a visiting head of state? Many sober-minded Jews who are ordinarily strangers to picket lines would answer that their consciences demanded loud protest. In fact, compared with other recent demonstrations, these were small and extremely orderly. Booing Pompidou, of course, is only part of a larger question: at what point does the emotional pull of Jerusalem distort...
...blocks from Durgin Park (on Haymarket Square) is Mondo's, a sober truck stop with a great juke. Tucked inconspicuously between two blackened buildings, it's relatively simple, except for its one charmingly vulgar extravagance. On the most prominent wall hangs an immense oil painting of a nude with crimson lipstick, enormous entrees, and a torso elongated beyond the elasticity of the human anatomy. The obvious, but affable errors in the painting speak well for Mondo's as a restaurant. It gets away with a great deal because it's a truck stop and people there wear white socks...
...moment, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors give no sign of drastically revising their advertising. Yet the sober values of Middle America are rapidly replacing the often giddy priorities that characterized the nation's buying -and selling-habits over the last decade. As the consumer becomes increasingly cost-conscious, a rising stress on value in auto advertising is almost a certainty...