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Uncertain Journey. Trudeau is a fresh phenomenon in Canada's capital, where furled-umbrella stuffiness has long been the norm. He works in an open-necked shirt, often sniffing or fondling a flower on his desk. His Cabinet meetings are as intellectually demanding as his University of Montreal law classes used to be, and during last summer's 90° heat they sometimes ran for more than six hours. One result is that in two months he has set in motion the most sweeping overhaul of Canada's government machinery since...
...Letters. Then he's up off the chaise and inside the house. In another moment he's joined me at the umbrella-covered picnic table, a thick folder filled with newspaper clippings in his hand...
...title is an umbrella for two amiable one-acters by Ireland's Brian Friel (Philadelphia, Here I Come!) that find tears in youthful exuberance and laughter in domestic conflict. In Winners, the curtain raiser, a betrothed young Irish couple joke and dream on a hilltop, planning their wedding, mocking the nuns and priests who have taught them. As they banter, a narrator (Art Carney), introduces a fragment of the future-the couple drown in a nearby lake. These are their last hours on earth, which take on new sweetness and meaning as the afternoon and their lives inexorably draw...
That conduct caused the company to fire 13 of the worst offenders. Last week tension reached a new high and tactics a new low. The Insurance Workers International Union's local in New York happens to belong to the Maritime Port Council, which acts as an umbrella for many small unions. So when 1,000 white-collar pickets gathered outside the Met offices, they were joined out of sympathy by 700 burly dock workers. The sales men and longshoremen marched through the streets chanting the peace demonstrators' slogan, "Hell no, we won't go." In this case...
...contradictions and uncertainties of the electorate have led Nixon and Humphrey, as their parties' frontrunners, to place unwonted emphasis upon their choices for running mate, seeking the broadest possible ideological umbrella. The old considerations of geographical balance are largely forgotten in the age of jet travel and TV. Instead, the candidates are seeking vice-presidential possibilities to bandage their political weak spots-and to add some luster to their familiar personalities. Some combinations discussed last week...