Word: bays
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...area that constitutes the Bay State's Eighth Congressional District has launched the political careers of a succession of notable Democrats: Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, President John F. Kennedy, House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Last week another famous name was added to the list: Joseph Kennedy II swept past ten other candidates for the Democratic primary nomination to replace O'Neill in Washington next year...
...bay geldings were confiscated after agents arrested Larry Renick of Killeen, Texas, in July 1985 for illegally operating a stimulant-producing lab. Fortunately, some $2 million in other assets was also seized, since the horses have turned out to be almost total losers. Flint Fire finished next to last in a field of eight last week at the New Mexico State Fair. Golden Parachute finished dead last in a race two weeks ago. The horses' combined purses this year: $7,309. The money went into the U.S. Marshals Service Assets Forfeiture Fund, which will be further enriched when the horses...
...heart, the Heisman Trophy winner, the No. 1 pick of the N.F.L., was never a football player at all. "Really, I got into football from peer pressure. My mom never wanted me to play," says Jackson, who declined millions in Tampa Bay to accept hundreds of thousands in Kansas City. " 'I'm not having you all broke up and limping and sore,' she'd say. When I'd come home that way, she'd lock me out. I'd stay the night with friends...
Bochco's career has stumbled since the initial success of Hill Street Blues. His much touted 1983 series about a minor- league baseball team, Bay City Blues, was canceled after a few low-rated weeks. In March 1985 he was fired from Hill Street, reportedly after disputes with his bosses at MTM Enterprises about cost overruns. Nevertheless, NBC is giving his new series, L.A. Law, a double-barreled send-off. The two-hour pilot episode premiering this week will have an unusual encore presentation in the Saturday Night Live time period two weeks later...
...shows glamourize drug use. Fast clothes and cars may be the toys of villains, but they are seductive nonetheless. In Oakland two weeks ago, many were shocked when the body of a notorious local drug lord, Felix Mitchell, was carried by a gold-and-black hearse, drawn by two bay horses, followed by a long line of Rolls-Royces and luxury cars. Inside the Baptist church where Mitchell lay in his bronze coffin with glittering rings on his fingers, a sound track played Sade's pop hit, Smooth Operator. Mitchell, 32, had been stabbed to death in Leavenworth penitentiary while...