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...France's presidential election was unmistakably under way last week. With a typically combative statement, Paris Mayor and neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, 48, formally announced his candidacy and pledged to halt the "process of degradation" that he blamed on France's present leadership. In the Paris suburb of Créteil ten days earlier, 361 Socialist delegates had gathered in a sports arena to name their 64-year-old leader, François Mitterrand, the party's official standardbearer, thus launching Mitterrand's third bid for the Elysée. Not to be outdone, Communist...
...outdoor altar evoking fishermen's nets was interdicted by First Lady Imelda as too "poor." He had intended to visit a prison; the stop was deleted from his itinerary. He wanted to see a leper colony; instead, a small group of lepers will greet him in a Manila suburb. At the mountain resort of Baguio, John Paul will be entertained by a group of pagan tribespeople, sporting G strings and spears. The Catholic tribespeople, who usually wear Western clothing and eschew spears, will be relegated to the background...
Candidates also got to look the town over. Comfortable family houses, 15 or 20 minutes away in the green foothills by car -and thus the equivalent of an Eastern suburb-are not cheap. But even with a little wooded acreage, their prices are dramatically lower than large houses without land in Westchester County, N. Y. The really good news is that owners pay proportionately far less in property and school taxes. Medford schools are harder to assess. Real Estate Agent Billie Powers recalls that when she moved up from California, her children had to be tutored to catch...
Throughout the West, unseasonably high temperatures are making even artificial snow hard to keep and migratory birds hard to get rid of. In the Denver suburb of Aurora, golf courses have been plagued by hundreds of Canada geese, apparently deceived by the balmy weather into thinking they have reached Mexico. "It's wall-to-wall geese," says Bruce Waldo, the parks and recreation director...
...pandemonium was not the result of an outbreak of war or the death of a President. It had been caused by Joseph E. Granville, 57, a self-promoting market theorist who lives in a suburb of Daytona Beach. Last Tuesday night Granville sent messages to some 3,000 clients urging them to sell their stocks. Like Babe Ruth pointing to the centerfield bleachers in the 1932 World Series and then slamming a home run to that precise spot, Granville predicted a big stock market tumble last week and then sat back and watched it happen...