Word: caron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Week after week, month after month, three young Italian prospectors methodically paddled up & down the swift tributaries of the Caroní River. Their leader, a geologist, was convinced that diamonds were to be found where the streams cut through the jungle-swathed sandstone edges of the Gran Sabana plateaus along Venezuela's remote Brazilian frontier...
...Italians split about $40,000 between them. Two made plans for trips to Italy and the U.S. The third was already touring Central America in a light plane. In September, they plan to meet and go back to prospecting for diamonds along the Caroní's other tributaries, paying particular attention to the ledges over which the streams tumble on their way from the Gran Sabana to the Río Orinoco...
Last week, Justice François Caron, a Catholic, handed down his decision: $400 damages and the costs of litigation for Jacob Nicol. The court held that the marriage was legal beyond doubt, that the girl, being 23 years old, had every right to enter into a marriage contract. A letter from the Abbe to Lucile was introduced in evidence. It said, in part, "You must remain free . . . the marriage at Newport means nothing . . . Nothing obliges you to marry him . . . May le bon Dieu help you in your decision." In the court's opinion, this "constituted not advice...