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Oliva Dionne, father of Canada's famed quintuplets, called an unwonted press conference last week in the $60,000 house that his daughters' income built at Corbeil, Ont. "The quints did not come home for Christmas," Papa Dionne announced sadly. "We didn't even receive a card from them. They didn't write; they didn't phone. We have realized for some months that they have been drifting away ... we decided it would be better if we didn't try to camouflage things any longer...
...Papa Dionne's public outburst, the quints resolutely went on living their own lives. They dodged in and out of their apartment, successfully bypassing swarms of newsmen and photographers. One night late in the week, three of them slipped out to a car, then drove 300 miles to Corbeil to patch up the family quarrel. The mission was successful; the three girls (Marie was ailing) were received with kisses and joyful tears and Papa Dionne announced that the whole sorry uproar was nothing but a misunderstanding...
Gathering at their home in Corbeil, Ont., Student Nurses Cecile and Yvonne, Piano Student Annette and Homebody Marie Dionne, survivors of the famed quintuplets (Emilie died during an epileptic seizure last August), celebrated their 21st birthday at a quiet family party. Without ceremony, they signed papers to carve up their trust fund of nearly $1 million. The shares: some $197,000 apiece, plus amounts of about $14,000 (from Emilie's portion) to each of them and to the other ten members of the family...
Strator, who had successfully interested and trained several friends, then fell across Dick Corbeil, who has already won his "brown bolt"--symbol of second-highest achievement in judo. Last spring and fall, Corbeil, Strater, and a half-dozen friends worked out in the I.A.B., and this year, they have University permission to do so officially...
...Randora" is what we use," explained Corbeil. "That means 'free play, catch-as-catch-can. It's nothing but Angle-Saxon wrestling with a ritual...