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...become an independent -depends largely on what happens at Kansas City. "If the party doesn't try to broaden itself at this convention," he says, "then the moderate Republican has no place to go. How can we stay alive in this party? We're already a vanishing breed...
Roselli was one of a breed that is dying off - usually by murder. Born Filippo Sacco in Italy, he entered the U.S. illegally as a child and remained in trouble for most of his life. In the '20s, he was a recruit in Al Capone's Chicago gang, reportedly as an arsonist, then moved on to bookmaking and numbers...
...Kissinger my first month here," Herzog says. His biggest success has been in stabilizing the pitching staff, especially the bullpen. There, Steve Mingori, a 32-year-old reliever who credits acupuncture for the first pain-free season of his career, has the cunning and toughness under pressure of his breed. His righthanded counterpart, Mark Littell, 23, is a flaky rookie known as "Air Head," who has been anything but airy about learning from Mingori. Between them they have 21 saves...
...pioneers include State Chairman Clarke Reed, a Greenville businessman; W.D. ("Billy") Mounger, a wealthy contributor from Jackson; and Swan Yerger, a Jackson attorney. The new breed is led by Gil Carmichael, a Meridian Volkswagen dealer who ran remarkable, but losing races for Senator and Governor. Following tradition, the two factions agreed in April that the delegation would cast all of its 30 votes as a unit, based on a majority vote among all 60 members...
...Canada and Alaska and mated in captivity-in artificial eyries in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Maryland. This summer he hopes to set 34 free in the Eastern U.S. His goal: to release enough young birds so that the peregrine can re-establish itself in the East and breed naturally, now that there is a near-total...