Word: cousin
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...heavily Hispanic Miami, Incumbent Maurice Ferré, 42, a Puerto Rico-born millionaire, easily turned back a challenge from E.L. Marina, a Cuban exile who runs a private school. In Houston, former District Attorney Frank Briscoe, a cousin of Governor Dolph Briscoe, led a field of twelve candidates in a muted, gloves-on primary. The gloves are expected to come off when Briscoe faces former City Councilman Jim McConn, a Houston developer, in a runoff next week. In Washington State, two former newsmen are about to take some of their own medicine. TV Analyst Charles Royer was elected mayor...
...once-respected Post leaves us misty-eyed, the decline of her rich cousin in Times Square can inspire only sniggers of contempt. Like an aging East Side beauty striving desperately to recapture her high-flown days on the deb circuit, the Grey Lady has transformed herself into a journalistic shoehorning maxi-bopper, forcing herself into modern dress and trying to persuade potential suitors that she really is the object of their dreams...
...uncle was a fighter and my cousin was a fighter so in a lot of ways I got the seed planted when I was young." DiNicola said Tuesday...
Such natural dignity befitted Lowell's New England background. His ancestors included Great-Granduncle James Russell Lowell, Cousin Amy Lowell and relatives on his mother's side who date back to the Mayflower. More combative than his genteel forebears, Lowell was fascinated by power. He often chose for his theme the doomed great in history: Racine's Phaedra, Mary Stuart and Cleopatra, and Alexander, "double-marching to gain the limits of the globe." Classmates at his prep school, St. Marks, called him Cal, after the despotic Roman emperor Caligula, because he was so imperious. The name stuck...
...Lancet. Now they have additional data prepared for publication, and another physician, Dr. Seymour Jotkowitz of Hackensack, has described an "impressive incidence of contact with sick dogs" in MS patients. Perhaps it is significant that among the many viruses that dogs harbor, one that causes distemper is a first cousin to that of the long-suspected human measles. Whether household pet dogs can ever be proved guilty of carrying an MS-related virus and what that virus may be are still open questions. Most veterinary authorities maintain that the evidence collected so far is not strong enough for pet owners...