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"Let's just say I'm a hell of a rich man and that laws make should be watched closely," snapped Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. He had just emerged from the House of Commons in Ottawa after suggesting some civil service guidelines to avoid conflict-of-interest problems. Multimillionaire Trudeau inherited a fortune, currently thought to be around $4 million, from his father, a Montreal lawyer who established a chain of gas stations. Under pressure from reporters, the Prime Minister somewhat testily revealed that he had sold some of his stocks after assuming his first cabinet office in 1967 and gave control of the rest of his holdings to an independent trustee. As for his own estimate of his assets, Trudeau resorted to flippancy: "I am worth $100 million or $200 million, and next year it may be $400 million."
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The plot: a corporate executive loses wife, children and job because of his drinking problem. The star: Dick Van Dyke, who has established a milk-sipping, father-figure image on his own weekly CBS-TV comedy show. Van Dyke's role in The Morning After—an ABC Movie of the Week to be aired later in the season—hardly seemed like typecasting. But, said Dick, it was. He and his wife of 26 years, Margie, began hitting the bottle a decade ago. "The beginning of drinking together is wonderful," he said. "You seem to have such wonderful insights. Then we got to the point where we couldn't get the words out. I kept calling her Fred." Fifteen months ago, Dick, 48, sought professional help. Now both Van Dykes are permanently on the wagon. Explained Dick: "I came to the point where you lose control. In my opinion, thousands in this country are at that point but won't face it."