Word: amiel
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...night of St. Jean's Eve, June 23, is the occasion in France of fireworks, bonfires and merrymaking. In bustling Perpignan, a city of 70,000 near the Spanish border, the holiday was celebrated as usual last year. But not everyone was amused. Jean Amiel, 37, who taught English at the local lycée, rushed to quiet his five-year-old daughter when she awoke crying, after youngsters had slipped firecrackers through the letter slot in Amiel's door and they exploded in the hall. He went to the open window, glimpsed five boys and two girls...
...bullet from Amiel's revolver struck one of his pupils, Alain Rolland, 16, in the back of the head and killed him. Standing trial in Perpignan's sunlit Palais de Justice, Amiel was asked why he did not fire into the air. "It goes without saying," he answered, "that I regret not having fired in the air." Teacher Amiel refused to make excuses, would not plead overwork at the end of the term, nervous strain in trying to pay for his new house, harassment by the students. He said sternly: "A teacher can never have sufficient provocation...
These students have been awarded degrees magna cum laude, with highest honors: Amiel Gershon Cooper, Chemistry; Ralph Frederick Baierlein, Physics; James Anthony Burke, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert Douglas Campbell, Jr., English; David Bruce Haley, English; Eric Martin, Architectural Sciences; James Henry Rieger, English; Harold Marion Ross, Anthropology; Charles Ernest Rossi, Engineering and Applied Physics; Howard Richard Sloan, Chemistry; Sereno Stephen Streeter, Geological Sciences...
From Kirkland are Walter A. Baker, Ralph F. Baierlein, Amiel G. Cooper, Howard L. Erdman, David Falk, Richard C. Johnson, George N. Rogentine, Michael C. Senturia, Thomas J. Shankland, Robert Underhill, and Richard P. Zimon...
...Manhattan Restaurateur Jack Amiel's Derby winner Count Turf, the $5,000 Polynesian Purse, in another Belmont preview; at New York. After the race, Preakness winner Bold, who finished third in a field of three, was withdrawn from the Belmont because of sore shins...