Word: junes
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Waldheim has vowed not to be bound by the panel's findings. He is busily making plans for the spring, and will greet Pope John Paul II in June when he visits Austria, which is 85% Roman Catholic. When the Pontiff met Waldheim at the Vatican last summer, the audience drew protests from the international Jewish community. This time the Vatican pointed out that John Paul's upcoming encounters with Waldheim are standard protocol for papal trips abroad...
...very first page of this very long novel about Ireland contains a reference to an unspecified night in June 1904, when "Patrick Prentiss came for the first time to Kilpeder and booked a room at the Arms." The time may be of little consequence to most readers, but some will not be able to ignore that, by coincidence or design, the author begins his plunge into Irish history with a suggestion of the most famous date in modern literature. That would be Bloomsday (June 16, 1904), the day of James Joyce's Ulysses...
...overtook McCarthy in primaries in Indiana and Nebraska, then lost to him in an upset in Oregon. With that, the party's attention shifted to the June 4 California primary. Kennedy won, with 46% of the vote, against 42% for McCarthy...
Critics contend that judges sometimes get too close to donors. Last June the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct handed down unprecedented reproaches to two sitting justices. C.L. Ray was reprimanded for, among other things, attempting to get a pair of cases moved from one appellate court to another, which would have helped a San Antonio lawyer who had donated $20,000 to his campaign. Justice William Kilgarlin drew a lesser "admonishment" because two of his law clerks accepted an expenses-paid Las Vegas weekend from an attorney who had cases before the court...
Morton Thiokol stopped its scheduled shipment of aft booster segments to Cape Canaveral, Fla., where an astronaut crew had hoped to resume flights on June 2. NASA estimated that the longest probable delay from the nozzle failure would be three months. But some of the agency's veterans speculated that the Administration will not want to risk a launch until after the November elections...