Word: carolyne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential campaign, and young Bill watched with fascination both parties' conventions. In 1958 Governor Orval Faubus closed the high school in Little Rock to prevent integration, and some families brought their children the 50 miles to Hot Springs to enroll them in Clinton's school. When Clinton and Carolyn Staley, class leaders as well as good friends, were elected to Boys Nation and Girls Nation, they went to Washington and shook John Kennedy's hand in the White House...
...Carolyn Staley, who lived next door to the Clintons when she and Bill were in high school, says that as a preacher's kid, she never even knew about the town's reputation as sin city. Did the Clintons know? I ask her. "Oh, yes, they were more sophisticated, more worldly-wise." Clinton's mother liked the gambling, and his stepfather, who was still drinking, flew into rages when he was not sure where she had been. In a deposition for divorce proceedings, the mother feared for her son's safety: "He has continually tried to do bodily harm...
...subsequent pieces are more personal, zeroing in on the experience of particular Angelenos. Novelist Carolyn Sees' "Melting" is a funny and complex autobiographical meditation on racial relations which brilliantly shows how L.A's diversity affects a few personalities. Sidestepping the sociological buzzwords about multiculturalism, she details a world where interaction between people of different groups is an inevitability and a fact rather than a fashionable political decision...
...simply because doing so means instant and permanent ostracism at court. But Diana's late father Earl Spencer, always appealingly proud of his little girl and avid for personal attention, contributed dozens of unpublished pictures. Her brother and a sister apparently spoke to Morton, as did an ex- roommate, Carolyn Bartholomew, and a couple of her buddies. Buckingham Palace at once snapped that the princess in no way cooperated with the book...
Even with overtime production, the patch shortage is expected to last at least until early August. "We're only getting about 50% of what we could sell," says Carolyn Fray, spokeswoman for Rite Aid Corp., which owns 2,498 drugstores nationwide. Merrill Lynch analyst Richard Vietor estimates that sales will top $880 million this year and nearly $1 billion in 1993. (Six months ago, he predicted sales of only $150 million for all of 1992.) "This is overwhelmingly the biggest first-year market for any prescription product," he says...