Word: suffolks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sidney Lipman, the freelance stenographer who worked at the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest in Edgartown, has changed all that. A plump, tenacious Bostonian of 45, Lipman insists that he has the right to sell copies of the inquest transcript for publication. Not only has the controversy forced the Suffolk Superior Court to impound the document until the issue is resolved; it has suddenly made court stenographers highly visible and subject to sharp questions about their rights and roles...
...train ride to Suffolk Downs Race Track isn't much. You take the blue line out from Government Center and roll past the sleek silver cylinders nosing down at the Airport, the junk-covered beaches of Wood Island, and the abandoned playgrounds of Orient Heights...
...went out to Suffolk Downs early one Saturday morning and walked down the road to the stables. Nothing is more peaceful than a stable in the morning. As I passed the rows of stalls, the sweet smell of fresh hay floated up from the hay bins. Dogs and goats lolled in the bright sun. I watched a horse flick its tail lazily. He munched quietly on his hay, grinding the stalks with horizontal sweeps of his lower jaw. Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" drifted over from the Track Kitchen...
Charlie Maffeo isn't even five feet tall, but he's a big man at the Downs. He has more wins than any other jockey at Suffolk this year. And he's not even a full-fledged jockey; he's a bugboy, an apprentice. When a bugboy wins 40 races, he becomes a regular jockey...
...show's producer and cast had recently sought an injunction to prevent Suffolk County District Attorney Garret Byrne from prosecuting them for an allegedly immoral performance...