Word: parkinsonism
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DIED. Mickey Walker, 79, the pugnacious "Toy Bulldog" who held the welterweight World Boxing Championship from 1922 to 1926, and went on to hold the middleweight title for five years before relinquishing it in 1931 to make an unsuccessful bid for the crown as a light heavyweight; of Parkinson's disease; in Freehold, N.J. A colorful, aggressive fighter who often took on bigger and heavier opponents, Walker scored 58 knockouts in a total of 148 bouts, winning an estimated $3 million over 17 years. After retiring from the ring in 1935, he took up painting, gaining some prominence...
...They're users. They're cruel, and they're certainly no better than I am," Paula Parkinson, 30, told the Washington Post. The 5-ft. 2-in., 100-lb. former Playboy pinup and Capitol Hill lobbyist denied rumors that she had video-taped 17 trysts, or that she kept a list of D.C. luminaries with whom she had sported. Well, one video tape and a short list of names, perhaps, none of which she would dream of using to blackmail nervous Congressmen, who have been busy pointing fingers in other directions while waiting for Parkinson...
...impossibility for the lame-duck Carter Administration. But to show good faith, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has recommended that credit guarantees for grain sales to Poland be increased from $670 million to a reported $900 million over the next year. According to British Trade Minister Cecil Parkinson, who was in Warsaw last week, Poland is also seeking new loans from West Germany, France, Italy and Britain...
...desegregate schools in Los Angeles County. Ohio's Thomas ("Lud") Ashley, who as chairman of an ad hoc energy committee guided much of President Carter's energy program into law, was upset by Attorney Ed Weber of Toledo. But liberal Warhorse Morris Udall, 58, recently stricken by Parkinson's disease, beat back a strong challenge from a conservative real estate millionaire, Richard Huff, 54, in Arizona...
...career against Jim Bradshaw, a former city council member in Fort Worth who has been aided by a surge in voter registration in traditionally Republican precincts. Democratic Congressman Morris Udall appeared to be moving past Richard Huff, Republican real estate millionaire, until Udall revealed that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease, thus injecting another uncertainty into the Arizona race...