Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Responsibilities. One day in 1934, father Albert, an ardent mountain-climber, fell to his death from a cliff near Namur. A year and a half later the new King Leopold was motoring with Queen Astrid near Lucerne, he at the wheel and she with a map in her lap. When his wife asked a question, the monarch leaned over and the car swerved. It plunged down a grassy slope, hit two trees and fell into the lake. The Queen fractured her skull, died 20 minutes later. The King hurtled through the car's windshield. To the first policeman...
Hungary's National Council of People's Courts, the country's highest tribunal, last week completed its review of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty's life imprisonment sentence. Said Presiding Judge Peter Janko: "There is not the slightest doubt that Mindszenty should have been sentenced to death." The tribunal, however, let the life sentence stand because "the case lost its original importance with the arrest arid sentencing of the cardinal. . . The Catholic masses calmed down...
People passing the Tobiansky apartment shook their fists and cursed it. Mothers blamed the Tobianskys for the death of their sons in battle...
...calmly. Most of the 2,560,000 voters on the registration rolls went to the polls in the heaviest turnout ever (under a new law, eligible citizens who fail to vote can be fined). For the first time in any of Mexico's national elections, not a single death was reported...
...Trapps, the camp is far more than a musical outing; it is their own family experiment in living. Since the death of Baron von Trapp in 1947, the experiment has been presided over by handsome Maria Augusta Trapp, a woman with the charm and will of a medieval matriarch...