Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, cluttered room. In the center was a round table, in one corner a twelve-inch statue of the Holy Virgin, in another an assortment of canes and crutches. This was the audience room where miracle-seekers met one of the Bélanger children-either André, 12, Réal, 10, Jeanne d'Arc, 9, or Robert...
Three weeks ago 23-year-old Thérèse Bourgault, for five years unable to walk without crutches, stood before Robert. "You will be cured," he pronounced, and witnesses swore that she walked away without crutches. Not all supplicants found such response. With crowds on hand from 8 a.m. till midnight, the four children had to work in shifts, were often irritable...
...Table. One day a troubled woman had an audience with Réal, who sat at the round table with his father, munching candy and playing with a plastic toy automobile. "Mon petit Réal," the woman pleaded, "my kidneys make me very sore at night. What shall I do?" "Big old fool," snapped Réal, "I am fed up. You have a cancer." He ran from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room. R...
...foreign power companies, the more important of which include: Campañia Argentina de Electricidad (CADE), which operates light & power plants in the Buenos Aires area; Mexican Light & Power, Ltd.; Belgium's Société d'Electricite de Rosario; Portugal's Compagnies Réunies Gaz et Electricité; and, in the U.S., the Public Service of of Indiana, Inc. and Central Illinois Public Service...
Routine. In Providence, charged with making improper advances to a housewife, Vacuum Cleaner Salesman John R. Marcos assured police that it was merely part of his sales technique...