Word: jr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Ludwig Jr., 17, killed his father, a Boston cabdriver, with six hatchet blows to the head. Last March he received a suspended sentence of nine to 15 years after friends and neighbors rallied around the youth and a court psychiatrist testified that Ludwig's was the worst case of abuse he had ever seen. Astonishingly, Ludwig initially denied he had been abused. "Kids are so ashamed," explains Bellevue Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis. "They even try to convince outsiders they deserved the beatings." Says Mones: "These kids are like prisoners of war. They can't think straight anymore...
...Albert Gore Jr. pondered whether to run for President this spring, he knew that it might be both too soon and too late. At 39, the freshman Senator from Tennessee would be trying to become the youngest person to win the nomination of either party since William Jennings Bryan in 1900. Yet to achieve that distinction, Gore would have to pass six other Democrats who were already running hard...
...knocked a hole in the roof with a Comanche yell." Pauline explains, "I think my son had to establish that it would be his campaign and that he'd be doing it in his own way." Jane Eskind, an admiring fellow Tennessee Democrat, observes, "Albert Sr. sees in Al Jr. the fulfillment of his own dreams...
...bottom line is, somebody is going to pay for these escort services," said Rep. Robin M. Tallon Jr. (D-S.C.). "Now the American taxpayer is picking...
...essence of the work was the discovery of crown-ethers made by Pedersen several years ago," said Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry last year. "Cram and Lehn were among the leaders in following up Pedersen's work...