Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feisty populist was elected Governor in Mississippi. Attorney General William Allain, a Democrat, took 56% of the vote to Republican Landowner Leon Bramlett's 39%. But in the end, Allain's positions on utility regulation and education reforms were obscured by a flurry of lurid charges: two weeks before the election, Bramlett supporters trotted out a pair of young black men, both transvestites, who claimed to have been paid 20 times by Allain for sexual services. A polygraph test commissioned by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger buttressed the hustlers' allegations. Allain, 55 and divorced, called the charges "damnable...
...that Lana Turner was discovered there (she was not). Last week, 51 years after it opened its doors and became a tinseltown landmark, Schwab's drugstore dimmed its neon sign on Sunset Boulevard for the last time. Citing financial pressure and what he called a "family dispute," Leon Schwab, 72, the brother of Founder Jack, decided it was better to close than sell. For its many loyal patrons, news of the demise was a real Hollywood tearjerker. "Everybody's trying to figure out where they're going to gather," said Alice Co-Star Vic Tayback, a Schwab...
...attention to the Beverly Hills Hotel during a tour of the fabled neighborhood of the stars, a policeman stopped him for invading the exclusive area. That incident in July and others like it sent three tour companies to court in protest. Last week Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Leon Savitch allowed Beverly Hills to continue barring buses carrying tourists eager to glimpse the likes of Gary Grant or Lucille Ball, or at least to see where they lived...
...York-area Mafiosi had expected Masselli to testify in Special Federal Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe of Donovan's activities as an executive of New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. Nat worked for his father William, 56, a convicted hijacker who owned an excavating firm that had subcontracts with Donovan's firm. Testimony in the Bronx County trial showed that Salvatore Odierno, 68, and Phil Buono, 68, Mafia soldiers, had met Nat Masselli last August to talk him out of cooperating with Silverman...
...such a bargain into effect, however, would probably require a summit conference among Reagan, O'Neill and other congressional leaders. At present there is no push for one. Says California Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta: "The public does not translate the deficit into something that really bites them. We are going to have to get public support for action on the deficit...