Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maddeningly familiar pattern: since arriving in the U.S. from Cuba as part of the Mariel boatlift in 1980, Jorge Delgado had been arrested at least eleven times for petty crimes and hospitalized as a mental patient seven times. Once he had smashed a chalice during a service at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Twice in the past six months, city psychiatrists had examined him and failed to discover any reason not to return him to the streets...
They obviously overlooked something. Outside St. Patrick's last Wednesday night, the 6-ft. 5-in. Delgado stripped off his clothes, entered the soaring Manhattan landmark and began to strike worshipers. Police officer James McMann, 50, radioed for help before Delgado knocked him out with a wrought- iron prayer stand and then struck and killed usher John Winters, 77. Lunging at one of three newly arrived policemen, he was shot dead. Afterward, John Cardinal O'Connor recalled that he had touched and blessed Delgado when he noticed the man looked disturbed at Mass that morning. In a city where tens...
...Bridget and Tom Hotchkiss of Evanston, Ill., who returned in July from a slow-moving car trip to the Maryland shore with their sons Tommy, 6, and Patrick, 3, vow never to do it again. Says Bridget: "Ever since we got home, the boys have been playing a new game. They get out all their big trucks and all their cars. I hear them saying, 'Let's play Traffic...
...contender, BBDO Worldwide ($3.7 billion), won seven. Among the Minnesota firm's winners was an ad for a pregnancy-prevention campaign that portrays an expectant teenager under the line, "If you're embarrassed by a pimple, try explaining this." A reason for the agency's success, says its chairman, Patrick Fallon, is that only one creative director reviews all text and designs. By comparison, submitting an idea to the management committee at a big agency, Fallon says, is like "having your work bitten to death by ducks...
Senator Quayle is just one of many so-called war wimps or chicken hawks: prominent, youngish Reagan-era conservatives who, one way or another, ducked the war in Viet Nam. Others include such Reagan Administration foreign policy hard-liners as Elliott Abrams and Richard Perle, Commentator Patrick Buchanan, and even Sylvester Stallone (who taught at a girls' school in Switzerland while the Commies were being beastly to his fantasy alter ego John Rambo). A similar Quayle-like controversy also surrounds the Rev. Pat Robertson, whose father, a Senator, may have helped him avoid combat in Korea...