Word: simon
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General Valentin Garcia is a cherished legend to the inhabitants of the Venezuelan state of Sucre. He fought in six great battles of the war of liberation from Spain, and once saved the life of General Simon Bolivar, who thereupon dubbed Garcia "Valentin Valiente" (Valentin the Brave). When Garcia died in 1856, he was buried in the parish cemetery of the town of Cumana. But until last week, Valentin the Brave, much as he was honored in Sucre,* never won a similar reverence from the rest of Venezuela...
...originally written by Democratic Representative John Simon Hellenthal, 45, of Anchorage, the bill would have allowed prisoners' wives to visit their husbands at the prison in privacy. This periodical togetherness, declared Hellenthal, would help rehabilitate prisoners, preserve families, cut down on the incidence of homosexuality in prisons.-For fear of making Alaska "the laughing stock of every two-bit master of ceremonies," as .one senator put it, and to save the cost of constructing private facilities at the prisons, the state senate rewrote Hellenthal's bill to permit the prisoners to go home...
...UGLY HEAD (183 pp.)-Derek Monsey-Simon & Schuster...
What Paule wants is to marry Roger, a pipe-smoking, frail-chasing, hairy-handed brute a few years her senior, who lacks only a trout to look like a Field & Stream ad. What she gets is a febrile few months with Simon, a delicate, beautiful and overmothered young man of 25. Neither fellow is of a sort likely to be encountered except in the lavender dells of a schoolgirl's fancy...
...THIS HOUSE BE SAFE FROM TIGERS (374 pp.)-Alexander King-Simon & Schuster...