Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Taurean Blacque (Hill Street Blues) plays family patriarch Henry Marshall, owner of a chain of five Chicago ice-cream parlors. Lynn Hamilton (The Waltons) is Henry's mother-in-law, Vivian, who years earlier was a servant in the Whitmore mansion. Her former mistress, Pat Crowley (Dynasty), is the lawyer Rebecca < Whitmore, Marshall's attorney and a troubled divorcee. These three, along with members of both families, knot the skein of story lines in which soap fans so love to get ensnarled. The older generation has career and economic problems; the middle generation faces romantic difficulties; the youngsters are your...
...Davis says the eggs are "potential life" that she may want to use herself or donate to another woman. Her husband maintains they are "property jointly owned" and asserts that he does not want to be forced into fatherhood. Her lawyer, J.G. Christenberry, says that even when a relationship falls apart after a couple has conceived, the father does not have a right to halt the pregnancy...
Despite his wife's pledge not to seek child support in the event that she gives birth, Davis, a refrigeration-maintenance engineer, would remain legally liable for such support. His lawyer, Charles Clifford, says that Davis "cannot envision ever agreeing to letting Mrs. Davis have the eggs implanted into her, or donated to a third party." Adds Clifford: "He was hoping that it was just going to be a simple no-fault divorce...
...tell Georgians that if he was elected he would be put on the Armed Services Committee. I have "assurances," he said cryptically. By primary day, Nunn had the support of both arch-conservative Lester Maddox and black activist Julian Bond. After defeating Carter's man -- a Harvard-educated lawyer whom Nunn chided for being "too used to air-conditioned rooms in Eastern Ivy League schools" -- Nunn faced a conservative Republican in the general. The great coup, the stroke that many say put him over, was Nunn's enlistment of Alabama Governor George Wallace as a public supporter of his candidacy...
Detroit's new school-board president, a black, Harvard-educated lawyer named Lawrence Patrick, is in favor of it. So are Sharlyn and Charles Dahl, a white Minnesota couple who are considering ferrying their son across district lines next fall to escape their school's financial problems. But other parents and educators throughout the U.S. are against it, including the four black members of the Boston school committee. Last week those members tried and failed to defeat a new plan that will allow Boston's parents to choose where their children go to school, as long as racial balance...