Word: gaius
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When James Gaius Watt was in the third grade in Lusk, Wyo. (pop. 1,800), his mother organized a club called the Five Rabbits, which consisted of the five Watts. "We'd elect officers," says Lois Watt, now 71, "and the kid that got to be president held office for a month." That formality, Lois Watt says, was the way she and her husband William, now 75, "trained the children how to make motions, make amendments and so on." It was the right of each child, while president, to set the Five Rabbits' agenda. The girls, Elizabeth...
Denver Lawyer James Gaius Watt, 42, scarcely looks like a stormy petrel. He is a balding, affable attorney with a reputation for being a workaholic dedicated to absorbing every relevant fact in a lawsuit-and then using the facts to devastating effect in the courtroom. Son of a lawyer in Lusk, Wyo., who represented ranchers and farmers, Watt married Leilani Bomgardner while still a student at the University of Wyoming (J.D. '62). He worked as a legislative aide to former Republican Senator Milward Simpson, then became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior and later, commissioner of the Federal Power...