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...Johnson--to Jeff Johnson. The previous representative, the recently-deceased Jefferson Davis Johnson, also went by "Jeff." Thomas Johnson obtains old campaign signs and other materials from Johnson's wife and wins on the basis of pure name recognition. In one scene, a typical couple walks into the voting booth; the husband asks his wife, "Who do we vote for for Congress...
...wrestling the three-ton satellite into the shuttle's payload bay. (It eventually took three men to do that job.) This time, though, she will play a key role: installing the Hubble's corrective lenses. They will be housed in a 600-lb. box the size of a telephone booth, but in the weightlessness of space, Thornton should be able to manage the load. Explains Susan Rainwater, a spacewalk trainer at the Johnson Center: "The fact that a smaller woman was selected just demonstrates that the task requires more agility than physical strength. It's fingertip forces...
...Devil Knows You're Dead (Morrow; 316 pages), Scudder lurks about trying to clear a half-mad homeless man of a murder charge. Why would this fellow have shot a well-dressed yuppie in a phone booth? Then, just when Scudder has discovered that the natty corpse had a lot of enemies, the homeless man is stabbed to death in prison. What's happening? The murk deepens enough to involve moral ambiguities for Scudder before he works out the answers...
...Blackman, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Sally B. Donnelly, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson...
...James Carney, Michael Duffy, Ted Gup, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Sally B. Donnelly, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson...