Word: saint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign that the military wing is winning the debate came last week in a promise issued by E.T.A. officials in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, just across the French border, that the E.T.A. would avenge the executions of its members by striking back at "political leaders of the Franco regime." Silent support for such a bloody strategy seems to be rapidly growing among the Basques. "No one is neutral any more," said one Basque lawyer to TIME Correspondent George Taber in Bilbao last week. "Franco has polarized everyone here. You're either pro-E.T.A. or pro-Franco, and there...
...jumpsuit fad began in Paris and was brought to the U.S. by models who had attended last fall's fashion shows. The first Paris designer to bring back a high-fashion jumpsuit was Yves Saint Laurent, whose collection for fall included jumps in classic poplin ($205), a black acrylic with drawstring waist ($375) and a turtleneck number ($355). A nationwide bestseller is Victor Joris' self-belted gabardine suit with pleated pants ($110); in all, some 600 stores have ordered 38,000 Joris jumps. One of the most popular numbers, though, is the inexpensive Esso suit, a loose overall...
Death Revealed. St.-John Perse, 88, Nobel-prize winning poet who was also a leading diplomat in France for more than 20 years under the name Alexis Leger; in Giens, France. Born on Saint-Léger les Feuilles, an island in the Caribbean owned by his aristocratic family, Leger published his first volume of poetry in 1910, four years before joining the French foreign service. Dark-eyed, mustachioed Leger served as secretary of the French embassy in Peking and later as adviser to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before becoming the highest permanent official at the Quai d'Orsay...
...celebration but simply as the magazine version of a front-page personality. Many readers nevertheless regard any cover story as the bestowal of an ultimate accolade. Clare Boothe Luce complained in the Wall Street Journal last week that "Elizabeth Seton, the first native American to be canonized as a saint, couldn't make the cover of TIME. But Lynette Fromme made...
...Billy Jack, the tousled loner of Laughlin's 1971 cult hit of the same name? Can this be the hero of The Trial of Billy Jack (1974), who mused on the tragedies of My Lai and Kent State? It can. To Laughlin, the private fury and the public saint are a smooth amalgam of aesthetics and justice. "The youth of this country have only two heroes," he claims modestly, "Ralph Nader and Billy Jack." Laughlin says to friends, "Billy Jack will institute political change...