Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal background is not exactly fudge, though it notably lacks the hard center of juridical experience to be expected of a federal judge. That deficiency has never budged Francis Xavier Morrissey from his deep-seated ambition to win a life appointment to the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts...
Some reasons for their enthusiasm are argued in the latest issue of Continuum, a lively, intellectual quarterly sponsored by Saint Xavier College in Chicago. The 244-page issue is devoted to analyses of Lonergan's work, including articles by English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, historian of philosophy, and by two of the nation's most theologically astute Catholic laymen: Continuum's Editor Justus George Lawler and Michael Novak of Harvard. Lonergan contributed a typically abstruse essay on "cognitional structure...
Married. Abbe Lane, 32, Xavier Cugat's red-hot mambo for 14 years, until she divorced him last spring; and Perry Leff, 38, Hollywood talent agent; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...cuts no ice with Portugal, which has never forgiven India for seizing its old colony of Goa in 1961. In honor of the Bom bay congress, Goa is exposing for 44 days of veneration its most famous relic, the mummified body of the 16th century Jesuit Missionary St. Francis Xavier-minus one toe that was bitten off by an overzealous worshiper in 1859 and part of one arm, which was shipped to Rome for veneration in 1615. So outraged was the government of Portugal by news of the papal visit that it forbade the country's newspapers and magazines...
...John A. Volpe, 55, a former Republican Governor, campaigned with vigah in Massachusetts, claimed greater administrative experience than his rival, Lieutenant Governor Francis Xavier Bellotti, who had upset Incumbent Democrat Endicott ("Chub") Peabody in the primary. Both Italians, the candidates tried to ensnare one another in a spaghetti bowl of corruption charges and sales-tax arguments (Volpe for, Bellotti against). Volpe spun his pasta fastah, won in a close...