Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the acrimonious conference of former British colonies at Singapore in 1971, it seemed as if the sun might be setting on the Commonwealth. But all 32 member nations, representing more than a quarter of the world's population, sent heads of state or surrogates to this year's conference in Ottawa. When the talking ended last week, the Commonwealth was still intact-or, at least, in roughly the same loose association it has somewhat incredibly maintained since its birth 42 years...
...light comedy grossed $3.5 million in its first four weeks. Brut, named after a Fabergé men's fragrance, has completed three other films and put four more into production; it aims eventually to turn out six a year. Grant, who took a glider ride at a Sun Valley film festival last week to plug the movies, insists that he plans no acting comeback. "I'm really interested in the economics of it," he says. He points out that in addition to any profit, "each time one of our films is mentioned anywhere in the world...
...from his office. But he can make the 25 miles of freeway in 30 or 40 minutes, likes to point out that within an hour after leaving work, he can be sitting on his pontoon boat in the middle of White Bear Lake, enjoying a drink and watching the sun go down. He and his wife and two children live in a 1912-vintage five-bedroom house on the shores of the lake, with their own beach and dock. His wife's optometry business is three blocks away; stores and schools are just as close. Says Ruhr: "There...
...there was something close to a traffic jam. Scarcely had the Shah of Iran driven away in his flag-bedecked limousine than Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pulled up to the door. Yet even as Whitlam walked out the door, he could see that disk-of-the-sun flags were already flying for the next official guest, Japan's Kakuei Tanaka...
...then, that the Asian trip "was something I didn't need to do," that there was "too much movement. Too much 'looking for' something." Yet even to learn that, he felt, the journey had been worth it. Later in the day he seemed profoundly content. "The sun is high, at the zenith. Clear soft sound of a temple bell, far down in the valley. Voices of children near the cottages above me on the mountainside. The sun is warm. Everything falls into place. Nothing is to be decided. There is nothing to be judged...