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Trudeau was born in 1919 in Montreal's affluent, French-speaking Outremont district, the son of a millionaire oil and land investor. He attended the best Jesuit schools, consistently topping his class. He went on to the University of Montreal law school, then spent two years studying politics and economics at Harvard and in Paris and London. He returned to Quebec in 1949 as a labor lawyer and economist. Trudeau flirted with socialism and became an outspoken civil libertarian, fighting against the autocratic and nationalist provincial government of Premier Maurice Duplessis. Early on, Trudeau accepted the idea of Quebec...
DIED. Leonard J. Feeney, 80, fiery Jesuit priest who was excommunicated in 1953 for disobeying his religious superiors and for interpreting literally the traditional Catholic doctrine that "outside the Church there is no salvation"; of a heart attack; in Ayer, Mass. After his excommunication, Feeney and his followers, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, moved to a farm commune in Still River, Mass. In 1972 the aging, ailing Father Feeney was reconciled to the church without recanting...
...Micronesia's most stalwart fighters against social erosion is Father Hugh F. Costigan. A former New York police department chaplain, Costigan directs the Ponape agriculture and trade school, an isolated 200-acre experimental farm reachable only by boat. Assisted by a volunteer staff of 40, the cigar-chomping Jesuit offers 155 Micronesians courses in construction, mechanics, horticulture and animal husbandry. When not in class, teachers work on such projects as manufacturing coconut soap and designing miniature diesel tractors and other small farming equipment. Says Costigan: "The most gratifying reward after 30 years in Micronesia is seeing my school kids...
...case of Auld Lang Syne when McLaughlin returned to the Bronx Saturday night with the Harvard basketball team to play Fordham in Rose Hill Gymnasium, ten minutes away from his old home in Woodlawn. McLaughlin played basketball for the Rams from 1965-69 after graduating from Fordham Prep, a Jesuit high school that his older brothers Walter and Jackie attended before him. Walter also attended Fordham on one of the school's last football scholarships...
...good piece: reporter Nancy Skelton thoroughly details Brown's backtracking in preparation for a run against Carter in 1980--the "era of limits" is now the "era of possibilities," E.F. Schumacher notwithstanding. It is one of the best of the pieces that have been written on the ex-Jesuit who at 39 is bound to be on the national political stage for a long time to come, and who, it will be remembered, beat Carter in six straight primaries during his abortive run for the presidency last year...