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...this respect the film version of The Happy Hooker is faithful to the book and then some. Director Nick Sgarro kept the American Dream theme going, in an age when everyone is wondering wistfully whatever happened to the self-made man, by presenting Xavier as the epitome of the self-made woman. The scenario is almost too complete: She arrives in the U.S. as a poor immigrant, a good girl, and gets a bad deal from her fiance (the only man she knows here). With no training and no capital, she makes do with what she has and goes into...
...summit in Brussels turned out to be a one-man show starring Gerald Ford. From 7:45 a.m. Thursday, when the President breakfasted on coffee and croissants with Luxembourg Prime Minister Gaston Thorn, until 6:30 p.m. Friday night, when he ushered out his last guest, François-Xavier Ortoli, president of the European Community Commission, Ford dominated the gathering. He met individually with 13 Western leaders, talking candidly and sometimes bluntly. He made an exceptionally firm speech at the conference's opening session, reaffirming that NATO is the foundation of U.S. policy in Europe but warning that...
...XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
...after 32 cardinals assembled in the Vatican to cast their ballots in a secret consistory, Pope Paul VI issued a decree of canonization on her behalf. Thus, on Sept. 14 in St. Peter's Church, Mother Seton will become America's first native-born saint. (Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a naturalized American, was canonized in 1946, but like some 2,000 other Roman Catholic saints, she was born in Italy...
...peer in any other major Western country. Although Giscard is the first graduate to reach the presidency, other Enarques (as alumni are nicknamed) have played important roles in recent governments. Among them: former Foreign Minister Michel Jobert and ex-Finance Minister and Common Market Commission President François-Xavier Ortoli, both class of '48. Below the Cabinet level, the school's 2,600 graduates hold many of the key jobs in the French bureaucracy, and their grip on the system is growing...