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...ethics or morals or obligation or principle." Whenever he can, he goes off to his prefabricated chalet in the Laurentian Mountains where "I replenish my emotions, find my inner directives." With his colleagues, Trudeau is a man of little small talk. He can be moody and, when dealing with lesser intellects, even irritable to the point of arrogance. When pursuing a political goal, he can be fierce, even ruthless...
...lesser degrees, other aspects of the economy have long been equally underestimated. Industry misread the demand for electronic equipment, xerography, synthetics and plastics. Government underestimated not so much the demand but the need for improved expressways, bridges, air-pollution controls, airport facilities, and the roads and devices that will make congested city traffic move more rapidly. Recreational facilities are in short supply because everyone underestimated the combined impact of increased leisure time and higher disposable income; to tee off for a game of golf on weekends has become a long and frustrating process, as many golfers can attest...
...Johnson thumbed through his Father's Day gift from Daughter Lynda Bird last week-F.D.R.'s old copy of Aesop's Fables-he might have come upon the tale about the dying lion. As the King of Beasts declined in strength, the story goes, the lesser animals trooped up to his cave, no longer subservient. The boar attacked him with his tusks; the bull gored him; even the ass, feeling quite safe, kicked up his heels and brayed. "Ah," sighed the failing King, "thus dies majesty." In the waning months of the Johnson Administration, TIME White...
...less apt students. Soon after hanging out his shingle, he concluded that there was more money to be made in investment than in litigation. In 1870, he opened his own bank, T. Mellon & Sons. Tall, thin and austere as a Grant Wood painting, he wore high starched collars when lesser men had long since moved to sack suits and button-down collars, read Greek philosophers for pleasure, but calculatingly lunched at the Duquesne Club to discuss the mortgage market...
...Zust-trailed far behind. Boarding a freighter, Schuster headed to Japan, crossed to Vladivostok, then set out on the long trek across Siberia. Where there were no roads, Schuster made do with railroad tracks. When he ran out of oil, he lubricated the engine with Vaseline, a substance that lesser men of the era used on their hair, and he managed to find a bed to sleep in only five times in 72 days. Finally, on July 30, he chugged into Paris-the winner by almost four weeks. His circumnavigation cost more than five months and $8,600-every penny...