Word: barnette
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acre ranch became the Western White House, the pet-loving Reagans have been opening their gates and arms to just about anything that barks, meows, whinnies or quacks. The most recent additions to the First Couple's ranch menagerie are three kittens that Caretakers Courtney Trisler and Barney Barnett found wandering outside a Santa Barbara, Calif., supermarket last month. Confident that the Reagans would be happy to shelter the unfortunate felines, Trisler and Barnett toted them up the mountain. Nancy welcomed the cats and, after consulting with the President, named them Cleo, Sara and Morris -- "because he looks like Morris...
...daily. Nancy is partial to a quarter horse named No Strings. The stable sextet is rounded out by Gwalianko, a retired Arabian; two younger Arabians, Catalina and El Saraff; and Dormita, another quarter horse. As for the unnamed ducklings, they were a recent purchase by Caretakers Trisler and Barnett. (Somebody hold those fellows back.) The rabbits started showing up intermittently this summer, prompting the First Lady to feed them, and prompting them to show up all the more regularly...
...call it the emotionally expressive component of the nonoccasion card market. But under such brand names as Soft Sentiments and Personal Touch, cards retailing love, heartache and other real-life, prepackaged emotions are among the hottest products in the industry. "The style today is openness and honesty," says Larry Barnett, founder of Carolyn Bean, a San Francisco card company. Barnett says he has seen women buying emotional cards in bunches, building "a library of sentiments." Says Neil Robinson, a young Washington writer and law student: "Cards have become a part of modern courtship and friendship...
...Pioneers, attackman Mike Barnett and middie Germano led the way with three tallies apiece. Jim Bovich added two more to help C.W. Post to victory...
Four-year-old Demont Beans was playing on his tricycle in front of his home in south-central Los Angeles. In the front yard of a neighboring house, James Barnett, 23, was arguing with his girlfriend and her brother. Police say Barnett drew a .22-cal. revolver. The bullet he fired struck De- mont in the head. The boy was rushed to Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center, where the average daily admissions to the trauma center include four gunshot wounds, three stabbings and three cases of "blunt assault" to the head. Demont died on the operating table...