Word: leos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Leo C. Byrne, 66, Coadjutor Archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis and vice president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; of heart failure; in St. Paul. Theologically conservative, Byrne was a social activist who supported Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers' grape and lettuce boycotts. At the 1971 World Synod of Bishops in Rome, Byrne urged that "no argument should be used to exclude women from any service to the church if it stems from male prejudice or blind adherence to merely human tradition...
...present City Manager, James Leo Sullivan, has also failed to initiate any action around this issue. No Civil Service hearings have been held. No departmental Internal Affairs hearings have been convened within the police force. The Liacos Report gathers dust and all four officers remain in good standing on the Force...
...behavior. These views, expanded and refined by later scholars, were amply illustrated last week in the crowd of 16,000 spectators who gathered to see Evel Knievel's fizzled but nonfatal attempt to rocket across Idaho's Snake River Canyon. The scene, as reported by TIME Correspondent Leo Janos...
...London for a scientific congress, he is abducted again-this time by the British, who are deadly curious about some information he possesses. They want the names of their own scientists who are leaking formulas to the Russians. If he will tell them, he will not be killed, suave Leo Genn informs the man. But if I talk, the Russians will kill me anyway, says a weary and disgusted Lino Ventura, who by this time has quite understandably had it with cold warriors of every persuasion...
...real administrative power lies with James Leo Sullivan (no relation to the mayor), the city manager. The council appoints the manager who, according to the city charter, has complete control over the heirarchy of commissioners and departments within the city's government. The council, the charter says, cannot order the manager to take any specific action; it can only "request" that he comply with its resolutions. In reality, of course, when the City Council says "jump," the city manager responds, "How high...