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Fayer separated a shoulder and now sits idly awaiting an operation. Versatile Laurie Downey gave up swimming for a thesis, and freestylers Sherri Lubbers and Liz Kelly also elected not to swim. So the aquawomen faced a tough schedule with only a shadow of the team they had expected to carry...
...that his daughter, who was known to her family as Sasha, had killed herself. Says an old friend: "David knew there was something odd about it. He was suspicious from the start." Soon after Bruce died last year at the age of 79, his wife Evangeline hired Washington Attorney Downey Rice to investigate Sasha's death. As a result of his labors, a grand jury in Charlotte County, Va., voted to bring an indictment for murder. The defendant: Alexandra's husband Marios, 33. The grand jury also indicted him for bigamy, charging that he had not divorced his first wife...
...have reached their ultimate end in Port Richey, Fla. (pop. 1,600). Two months ago, the voters decided to abolish their $135,000-a-year police force. Instead, they pay $70,000 for protection from the Pasco County sheriffs department, thus saving themselves $65,000. Now, former Councilman Robert Downey has asked why property owners have to pay $195,000 a year to the city. His solution: to abolish the city and make it an unincorporated section of the county. The community would pay only for fire protection and street lights, saving homeowners about 70% on their property taxes...
...There's 52 years of history behind this city," protests Port Richey Councilman Harold C. Loser. "I question giving that up." "Nonsense," scoffs Downey. "Fifty-two years is not much of a history. Half of our city is water and sawgrass marsh anyway...
...York's Second District, on Long Island, is considered one of the natural habitats for elephants. But young Thomas Downey, with energy and charm, claimed the place in 1974 for the Democrats. At the ripe old age of 29, he has a good chance of hanging on. In the next days he will tramp his district from dawn to sunset. He will attend the Mother Cabrini Festival and countless block parties. Downey will loiter at the commuter train stations, roll through areas in his mobile van. Every voter will be invited to a Sunday-morning tea at his parents...