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Maybe that's all in vain...
...jousting is in vain. When Detroit's Stroh Brewery Co. bought much larger Schlitz eight months ago, it looked to Wall Street as if two sick chickens were being gathered in a single coop. But, says an industry watcher, "they've done a little better than expected. The jury is still out on Stroh-Schlitz...
...officials feared that Ochoa, a military classmate of D'Aubuisson's, was being used by D'Aubuisson in order to force Garcia out as Defense Minister. Some Salvadorans looked for a less complicated motive. Said a military analyst: "This is a question of two very ambitious, vain men. In the Salvadoran army, once a commander gets a little too popular, a little too visible, he gets dragged down, or else he becomes a threat. Tigers don't eat tigers; they get moved to different cages. Ochoa was too visible...
After dining with the Soviet leader, Norwegian Actress Liv Ullmann gushed that "Brezhnev looks a little vain, but I feel an immediate liking for him when he takes my hand and tells me that he loved The Emigrants [her 1972 film]." Brandt's wife Rut was also taken by his gallantry. On his first state visit to West Germany, in 1973, Brezhnev kissed her hand and said, "You are the first person I am going to invite to Moscow." Cozying up beside her on a sofa, he promised that "all Moscow will lie at your feet," as a gaggle...
...bygone stereotypes. Even her mother says her new morals are a hundred years behind the times. No one these days feels that becoming a housewife should be a woman's sole aim in life. And no one anymore refrains from sexual contact before marriage. Sabine is trying in vain to live out a story-book like fantasy where prince falls in love with beautiful princess, they get married, and live happily ever after...