Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such sadistic acts?expressions of what moral philosophers would call sheer evil?be explained satisfactorily by poverty and deprivation? What is it in our society that produces such mindless rage? Was the 19th century French criminologist Jean Lacassagne right when he observed that "societies have the criminals they deserve"? Or has the whole connection between crime and society been exaggerated...
...Trouble. Demonstrating that hearts and minds policy, some days earlier Trudeau put in an appearance in Quebec at the annual holiday honoring St. Jean Baptiste, the province's patron saint. There, Quebec Premier René Lévesque also happens to be making big trouble for Trudeau on the most explosive issue in officially bilingual Canada: language rights. A fundamental goal of Lévesque's party is that Quebec "will be the country of a people that speaks French." Stripped of secessionist overtones, that aim makes great sense to many of the 4.8 million French-speaking Quebeckers...
...green grass courts became an elephant's graveyard for international stars such as Rod Laver, 38, who was eliminated by Dick Stockton in three sets in the first round; Ilie Nastase, 30, victim of his own bad behavior and Borg's precisely controlled passing shots; and Billie Jean King, 33, slowed by knee surgery, who fell to Chris Evert, 22, in the quarterfinals. The record-breaking and-by Wimbledon's well-bred standards-surprisingly rowdy crowds adopted as their darling a 14-year-old, pigtailed Californian named Tracy Austin. The youngest player in the history...
...details need to be checked, new issues analyzed; more lawyers are hired to battle more attorneys on the other side. The Guinness Book of World Records gives its longevity award to a lawsuit that was filed in Poona, India, in 1205 and not settled until 1966.* In France, Attorney Jean d'Everlange vividly recalls the "Santoni affair," a controversy over the ownership of some...
...will attend the open-air ceremony at St. Peter's when John Neumann is canonized by Pope Paul. John Cardinal Krol, Neumann's successor six times removed in the Philadelphia see, will join the Pope in celebrating Mass for some 20,000 people. Back home, Apostolic Delegate Jean Jadot will conduct Mass at the Aston, Pa., mother house of a nuns' order founded by Neumann, while ethnic delegations will parade to the Philadelphia shrine...