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Other featured skaters are Dorothy Hamill, 1974 U.S. women's champion; Lynn Nightingale, 1974 Canadian women's champion; Melissa Militano and Johnny Johns, 1974 U.S. pairs champions; Sandra and Val Bezic, 1971-74 Canadian pairs champions; Ann and Skip Miller, 1974 U.S. dance silver medalists; and members of the U.S. and Canadian World figure-skating teams...
Throughout his election campaign last spring, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing repeatedly said that he hoped to bring a more relaxed style to the French presidency. During an hour-long interview at the Elysée Palace last week with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers and Correspondent George Taber, Giscard seemed to be fulfilling his campaign promise. He leaned back comfortably on a silk-covered sofa in his elegant Louis XVI-style office and spoke freely on matters of both style and substance. Excerpts...
Rebellious Sailors. The liner's fate had been sealed last July, when French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced that the government could no longer afford to subsidize the ship. A fourfold increase in oil prices had pushed the liner's estimated deficit to an intolerable rate of $21 million this year. Although the ship was to have been pulled out of service on Oct. 25, the end was hastened when the crew went on strike two weeks ago as the liner approached Le Havre on its regular crossing from New York. Rebellious sailors forced...
...school supplies, children's clothing, ham, yogurt, sausage and other common goods. No one expects the widely publicized program to have anything but a cosmetic effect on France's severe economic difficulties. A more fundamental attack on inflation was launched several months ago when President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing restricted credit by imposing high interest rates. Recognizing the hardship the measure inflicted on most Frenchmen, Giscard has urged his countrymen: "Do not give in to discouragement." Nonetheless, forecasts indicate that this winter widespread strikes and business failures could sweep France...
Though his protean athletic skills include hunting, soccer and skiing, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing joined thousands of his countrymen by packing up his wife and four teen-age children for a vacation at the beach. While his constituency fought for space in the sand, however, Giscard enjoyed some swimming, tennis and boating in the privacy of a Cote d' Azur estate bor rowed from Prince and Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne. "My vacation I devote especially to my children," declared Giscard to a French reporter, then came...