Word: montforte
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...coroner's jury that had heard eight days of testimony, it was a "gross technical error." To Dr. Jean-Paul Drouin, 50, of Ottawa's Montfort Hospital, it was a "complication." To three of Drouin's surgical patients, it meant slow, painful death...
...ensuing inquest, jolted the Canadian medical community. Drouin now faces an investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, which has the power to revoke medical licenses. After hearing hospital personnel tell about missing reports and erroneous or unkept records, the coroner's jury cited the Montfort Hospital for a "considerable lack of liaison between the various departments" and urged it to adopt better administrative practices. It also heard testimony about other patients' postoperative problems (one woman told of an overwhelming though inexplicable desire to eat mud) which raised new doubts about weight-loss surgery...
Died. Don Carlos de Beistegui, 75, Spanish playboy and jet set superhost; of a heart disease; in Montfort-l'Amaury, France. Heir to ever-producing Mexican silver mines, Beistegui squandered fortunes on incredibly lavish parties -most notably in 1951, when at a cost of $750,000 he restored Venice's 89-room Palazzo Labia, gilded it with an estimated $3,000,000 worth of period trappings, then treated 1,500 friends to a stupendous all-night bash...
...after defeating King Henry III at the battle of Lewes, Simon de Montfort, the ambitious French-born Earl of Leicester, summoned the barons, bishops and warrior knights of England to a national colloquy in London. To muster popular support for his cause among the new commercial classes, Montfort also took the unprecedented step of inviting each of the young nation's townships to send "two of their more discreet, lawful and trustworthy citizens or burgesses." By thus giving commoners a voice in government for the first time, Montfort, as Winston Churchill wrote, "lighted a fire never to be quenched...
...maintained with growing conviction ever since." All the same, the mother of parliaments has brought forth some odd offspring. Among the 21 Commonwealth ministers present, nearly a third came from countries such as Tanzania, Ghana and Malawi, where democracy is about as real as it was in pre-Montfort England...