Word: brebeuf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Young Pierre was driven to school by a chauffeur, as a boy was given private boxing lessons "because I was quite a puny child." Trudeau's father died when he was 14, and the loss saddened him for years. He went to a Jesuit college called Jean-de-Brebeuf, ran with a crowd known as Les Snobs, and invariably led his classes in academic honors...
...Sister Mary Viva, principal of St. John Brebeuf School, knew that all the children lived in that parish. Three of the leukemia victims were attending the school when their illness began; four others were preschool tots with older brothers or sisters in the school; the eighth, though in public school, had friends in the parish school. Sister Mary reported her concern to the Illinois branch of the American Cancer Society, which notified Dr. Schwartz. Then Dr. Robert J. Hasterlik, of the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital, called in epidemiologists from the U.S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center...
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