People, Apr. 26, 1971

Anyone would think Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 51, was a male chauvinist or something, to listen to Helen Gurley Brown, 49. Asked on a Canadian television show what she thought of Trudeau's recent marriage to 22-year-old Margaret Sinclair, the sexpert editor (Cosmopolitan) and author (Sex and the Single Girl, etc.) used the unminced word "outrageous." Said Mrs. Brown: "What I think your Prime Minister has done is set back the cause of a certain kind of equality for a long, long time. I think the idea that you must go and pick someone nubile who is 29 years younger...

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