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...business, so we can play in the dirt and you don't have to grow your own food," says Ben Boyd, a Georgia cotton farmer who's active in the Farm Bureau. "It's not like we're all living in plantations like Tara, wearing fancy white suits like Colonel Sanders...
...winsome Salvation Army lass under the tutelage of Hiller, the fresh-faced rage of the day. Kerr's radiance was both more demure and more alluring; and when pregnancy forced Hiller to drop out of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's war epic The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Powell cast Kerr as the three women who, over a 40-year span, weave a romantic spell over the lead character. And over the co-director: Powell fell in love with her. During the shoot, on her 21st birthday, Powell proposed marriage. (They never wed.) In 1947, the Powell-Pressburger...
...Another part of Kerr's chameleonic character was her red hair, a dramatic frame for her pale skin. For her three Colonel Blimp characters she had worn it in different shades and styles, from upswept scarlet to sensible russet. She was a natural for Hollywood in the postwar years, when more movies were made in Technicolor, and red was the fashionable tint for an actress. Yet in her most famous film role - anyway, film scene - she went platinum blond...
...more benign means of controlling violent and mentally ill prisoners - and Florida is hardly the only state that uses such chemical agents to handle unruly inmates. But beyond the pepper spray issue, groups like Berg's acknowledge that McDonough, an MIT grad and former Army colonel, has begun long-overdue reforms to tackle corruption and other abuses. "We're changing the culture of the Department," McDonough insists. "There had been an attitude that [the prison system] was a culture apart from the rest of the state government. Not anymore...
...pilots like Marine Lieutenant Colonel Anthony "Buddy" Bianca know their aircraft is heading off to war with inadequate firepower. "It says right there in the ORD" - the Operational Requirements Document specifying what the aircraft must be able to do - that "the aircraft is supposed to have 360 degrees field of fire with a defensive weapon," says Bianca, who has spent 1,300 hours flying the V-22 over the past eight years. "I don't care if it's a turret, you stick it out of a window or you patch it on with bubblegum...