Word: barnette
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improvement; under the FAA'S contingency plans, such planes had a lower priority than the scheduled carriers. But as the week progressed, even the reduced number of flights held more capacity than the fewer passengers could fill. The airport crowds vanished, counter service notably improved. Said Traveler Bob Barnett of Santa Monica, Calif.: "The L.A. airport was about as mellow as I've seen it in 15 years...
...relaxed, he had spent a leisurely four-day Memorial Day weekend with Mrs. Reagan on their 688-acre ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Santa Barbara, Calif. He and his wife rode horseback for an hour or so each morning. With help' from an old friend, Barney Barnett, he spent time clearing oak branches that had fallen during a late winter snowstorm in March. Apart from working on his West Point speech, he just took it easy. "He was in a super mood the whole time we were up there," said Dennis Leblanc, one of only two personal...
...famous felon John Mitchell: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. King was bouncing back from public humiliation better than any similarly poleaxed public figure in a long time. She had slipped only briefly at the start of the whole ridiculous business. When her former secretary Marilyn Barnett for "palimony," a lesbian relationship with King, Billie Jean first responded with a denial...
...instinct for competitive public relations, as shrewd and sure as her court sense, told her that you only win if you control the game. She knew that the story was shaking loose, and that more denials would only put reporters into a feeding frenzy. She knew that if Barnett had to prove the sapphic connection in court, she could organize a parade of witnesses who would keep the tabloids happy for weeks. So King decided that she herself must manage the stagecraft of her public humiliation. Her parents on one side, her husband Larry on the other wearing an expression...
...Kings' comments about Barnett were sorrowful rather than angry. Ear lier in the week, King had suggested that the former secretary had been "in and out of institutions" and had attempted suicide. Barnett was, in fact, listed on Los Angeles County fire department logs for a "possible suicide attempt" last October, after she was found lying, with a broken back, on the beach 30 ft. below the balcony of the stilt-supported Malibu home...