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Family ties help open doors. Tommy Boggs' mother Lindy is a Congresswoman from Louisiana; his father, the late Hale Boggs, was House majority leader. Other congressional progeny who as lobbyists have traded on their names for various interests: Speaker Tip O'Neill's son Kip (sugar, beer, cruise ships); Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole's daughter Robin (Century 21 real estate); Senator Paul Laxalt's daughter Michelle (oil, Wall Street, Hollywood); and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jamie Whitten's son Jamie Jr. (steel, barges, cork...
...other words, those people now recognized to suffer from the disease are only the tip of the iceberg. Although these statistics estimate a large population of people carrying the virus, at the present time there are no known cases of AIDS transmission by casual contact. This fact becomes significant in light of the countless hours of contact between health care workers and AIDS patients, especially those millions of person-hours of contact before doctors understood the viral nature of the disease and thus its possible dangers...
...tune of "If You're Irish, Come Into The Parlor," and "Happy Days Are Here Again," the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee honored departing Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. at its annual dinner last night...
Tolman, who has been preparing his candidacy for the past year, joins a race already in full swing--following the trend towards early campaigning set by candidates for the Eighth Congressional District seat held by departing Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. Bachrach is prominent among more than a dozen candidates for that office, and is one of four state legislators leaving their seats open to competition among a host of local politicians in this rare game of musical chairs...
...subject. Weinberger's choices--the Army's Materials Technology Laboratory in Watertown, Mass., the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, and a big piece of Lowry Air Force Base in Denver --are all redundant. But they also happen to be in districts of outspoken Democratic critics of the Pentagon: House Speaker Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts, House Budget Committee Chairman William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania, and Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder of Colorado. Predictably, all three raised a howl. Somehow, Pentagon Spokesman Robert Sims kept a straight face when he declared, "I don't think Secretary Weinberger's decision . . . had anything to do with...