Word: deleon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today at many rock concerts. In sports, Hispanics have been most conspicuous -- and successful -- in boxing and baseball. They make up a sizable proportion of the crowds at boxing matches in New York and Los Angeles, cheering for the many Hispanic fighters who are ranking contenders (Cruiserweight Carlos "Sugar" DeLeon, from Puerto Rico, is world champion). Almost 100 of the roughly 1,000 players in major league baseball at the beginning of the season were born in Latin America. A Hispanic All-Star team might include Pitchers Fernando Valenzuela, Joaquin Andujar and Willie Hernandez; Infielders Rod Carew, Damaso Garcia...
...supporting cast springs from that circle where commerce, show business and crime are hard to separate. Casino Manager Jackie Garbo likes to impress visitors with his autographed celebrity photos. Bodyguard Moosleh Hajim Jabara strains parody as an Ethiopian-born retired pro-football player who changed his name to DeLeon Johnson. LaDonna Holly Padgett is a former Miss Oklahoma and Miss Congeniality well on her way to such titles as Miss Cordial and Miss Bloody Mary. The rub-out of a Mafioso in the mandatory spaghetti joint summons up the sensible suggestion, "You'd think those guys'd learn...
...Raynard DeLeon's week began with splendid luck and cunning. He and five fellow inmates of the San Diego County jail squeezed through a ventilator shaft and out an unlocked door. But from there, DeLeon went one way, and his luck and cunning skittered off in another...
Three days after the escape, a woman paying a $35 fine in a San Diego traffic court found she was short of cash. She asked the deputy marshal to call for her companion. Out went the cry: "Paging Raynard DeLeon, paging Raynard DeLeon . . ." DeLeon, an auto thief, was cocky enough to come when called, but he too was broke. He said he would return as soon as he could raise the money...
Meanwhile, the obliging deputy marshal, Gary Mahaffey, 27, thought DeLeon's name sounded familiar. A police team at the courthouse was alerted, and when DeLeon returned (in a stolen car) three hours later, they had their man. His girlfriend, impatient, had already gone home without him. Smart move: he had been unable to scrounge up the money anyway...