Word: patricks
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Terrence and Marie ("Babe") Duffy never missed an episode of Dallas, featuring their son Patrick as the newly revived character Bobby Ewing. "Usually Terry was working during the program," said Bobby Sutherlin, a close friend. "Babe would tape it so he could see it later." One wall of the Lounge, the Duffys' bar in Boulder, Mont. (pop. 1,500), was adorned with photographs of Patrick, 37, who left the former mining camp after high school to find fame on the top-rated nighttime soap...
Last week Patrick returned to Boulder to mourn his parents. The night before, Terrence, 66, and Babe, 63, were shot dead in what appears to have been a robbery attempt at the bar. Two janitors from nearby Helena, both 19, have been charged with the homicides. In Los Angeles, production of Dallas was shut down briefly as a gesture of respect for the Duffys...
...others sharply dispute this notion. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of ! New York, who brought attention to the plight of the black family in a controversial report two decades ago, called the Administration study "less a policy paper than a tantrum. They're not writing from facts. This is just ideology." Indeed, there is little hard evidence to show that welfare alone encourages family breakdown. A study by Sociologists David Ellwood and Mary Jo Bane, of Harvard's Kennedy School, found no correlation between the birth rates for unwed mothers and welfare-benefit levels from state to state. They argue...
...PERFUME, Patrick Suskind -- THE PRINCE OF TIDES, Pat Conroy -- A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS, Peter Taylor -- A TASTE FOR DEATH, P.D. James...
...John Connally Award for most dollars per vote in a losing cause. In the race for the Senate in Vermont, former Governor Richard Snelling, a Republican, shelled out $20.24 a vote, but he was defeated nearly 2 to 1 by incumbent Democrat Patrick Leahy. Leahy spent only $10.77 a vote, based on the latest reports. Democratic Senate candidates in four states upset Republicans who spent more than twice as much...