Word: franciscanism
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DIED. Lucas Tupper, 45, Franciscan missionary doctor whose practice embraced 200,000 Brazilian villagers along the Amazon River; of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; in Columbus, Ohio. Tupper first witnessed the misery of South America's poor in 1960 as a U.S. Navy medic and soon dropped plans for a career in plastic surgery to join the priesthood. He first made his Amazonian rounds in a motorboat, but later ministered from a 55-ton refurbished ferryboat named the Esperanqa (Portuguese for Hope...
...South Boston who plans to go to law school. Unlike the other members of his family--his rebel sister is a Moonie, but the rest, devoutly Catholic and provincial, remain in Southie--Tim says he "found the real world." Stan Feitelberg is his antithetic nemesis, a loose-hanging San Franciscan who gets high and lapses into a desk-pounding imitation of Keith Moon as a diversion from his chemistry reading...
...committee also heard from Father Bruce Ritter, a Franciscan priest who founded and runs a private New York City shelter for runaways. He told of the 14-year-old boy who had been held prisoner for six weeks in a Times Square hotel by a pimp, who chased the fleeing boy right into Ritter's center, trying to maim the youngster with a broken bottle...
California's abrasive Phillip Burton, an explosively propelled San Franciscan who is rated as an all-out liberal by his colleagues, was the favorite. But he was by no means Tip O'Neill's favorite. With his sandpaper style and naked drive for power, Burton had quite a few enemies. Second in the handicapping was Missouri's Richard Boiling, admired as a scholarly authority on constitutional and parliamentary affairs, but considered aloof and arrogant by many of his colleagues. Third-ranked was Texas' Jim Wright, 53, who started his political career as an avowed liberal...
...picketing plumbers: "The poor babies, I really feel sorry for them, especially when I'm shaving in cold water. We have to live on $300 a month, and these guys live on $24,000 a year." But not all the citizenry was so truculent. One elderly San Franciscan strolling down Market Street seemed delighted: "This town is so lovely without all those noisy buses, trams and cable cars. Why, it's like it was Sunday every...