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This tight friendship between the two is easily evident; married within two weeks of each other about six years ago, the two were each others' best men. Similarities in personality and attitudes--particularly toward their families--also illustrate the closeness that permeates the McLaughlin clan. The chance to be closer to his family was a significant benefit of Tom's decision last spring to leave Notre Dame for the UMass job: "We're two brothers and we're very close. We're both very family-oriented (Frank used exactly the same phrase), and its nice to be in the same...
...Roti's kin are paid $351,000 a year by the city. His daughter Rosemary Marasso is a mayoral press aide; her husband Ronald was just promoted from city painter to maintenance manager at O'Hare International Airport, thus becoming the highest paid city worker in the clan ($34,000). Another daughter, Mary Ann, works for the city housing department, and she is married to a police department machinist. Roti's daughter-in-law works for the health department; her husband Bruno held a job with the police until last year, when he was convicted of extortion...
...alum's house where they ate and drank, and then they returned to the Palo Alto Hilton where they attended a party that sophomore JOE CARRABINO's family had rented several rooms for. Carrabino, who hails from the more Southern California city of Los Angeles, was followed by a clan of Carrabinos wherever he went--"It looked like Joe had developed a fan club like Ferry (freshman BOB FERRY) has," junior LAMAR FLATT said...Junior JEFF SINEK turned 21 during the Western odyssey...
...genteel Buckley clan of fashionable rural Connecticut has long championed free enterprise and political conservatism with considerable charm, commendable wit and decided moral convictions. But the Securities and Exchange Commission, after a 3½-year investigation of Buckley-controlled oil and gas companies, last week portrayed the family's own business practices as unethical and even unlawful. In effect, it accused the companies of having defrauded stockholders to feather the family's nest...
...locale is Hazelhurst, Miss., and the time is "five years after Hurricane Camille," Playwright Henley's little hint that this clan is disaster-prone. Lenny MaGrath (Lizbeth Mackay), the eldest sister, is facing her 30th birthday with "a shrunken ovary" and no gentlemen callers in sight. She is plain of face, finicky in manner and gnawed by self-doubt. She had a heartfelt romance once but skittered away from it in fear and put her emotions in a deep freeze. The kind of event that nails her hysterically to her sun-drenched kitchen wall and illustrates Henley...