Word: won
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...Indeed, it was John F. Kennedy who inspired Tsongas (pronounced Song-as) to spend two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia before getting his law degree at Yale. Tsongas opened his practice in his home town of Lowell, Mass., where his Greek emigrant grandfather had settled, and won his first election to Congress in 1974, by defeating Republican Edward Brooke. Considered to be one of the party's rising young liberals, Tsongas has strongly supported the Kennedy-Waxman national health plan and has sharply criticized both Carter and the Congress for failing to develop an adequate energy program. Says...
...Braves, Turner was once formally reprimanded by National League President Charles Feeney; he has irritated the game's purists with several of his promotional ploys. In 1977 he took on the gentlemen of the yachting world and earned the chance to defend the America's Cup. Turner and Courageous won. His latest target: the nation's major television networks. His "superstation," WTCG in Atlanta, now reaches 4 million households in 46 states by broadcasting via satellite. Now the three major networks are trying to force the FCC to limit retransmission consent. Turner is spoiling for the fight. "The networks have...
...special assistant on women's issues. A graduate of the University of Texas Law School and a Texas state legislator for five years, Attorney Weddington worked to reform the state's sexual abuse laws and equalize commercial credit requirements for women. In 1973, at the age of 28, she won the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. Since Weddington replaced Midge Costanza last November, Carter has increased the number of women in top Administration spots; former Attorney General Griffin Bell raised female federal judgeships from...
...Shadow Box, The Gin Game and a revival of Ah, Wilderness! Brown, who has already branched out into television and is planning to go into movies, is not talking idly when he says: "We've become equally proficient with Broadway in overall quality." A year ago the Long Wharf won a Tony Award for its "extraordinarily high level of performance and aspiration...
...larger body of sports buffs remember him as Bobby Avila, who 20 years ago played second base for the Cleveland Indians when the Indians had more chiefs than they do these days. Avila in ten years with Cleveland appeared in three All-Star games and in 1954 won the American League batting championship with an average of .341. Take that, oldtimers...