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James David ("Cowboy") Autry, 29, spent much of last Tuesday talking calmly with a Presbyterian minister and a Roman Catholic priest at the Huntsville, Texas, prison known as The Walls. At 6:30 p.m. he was served a final meal; he had chosen an unusually mundane one of hamburger with mustard, French fries, iced tea, water, and nothing else. His court-appointed attorney, Charles Carver, arrived, and they talked of his legal prospects. But both knew there was little hope. The day before, the U.S. Supreme Court had turned down his request for a stay. The time for his execution...
...only want fun people," he explains. "The wilder the clothes, the better the chance you have of getting in. We discourage the Bagel Nosh-polyester group." And a lot of other folks besides. John F. Kennedy Jr., who neglected to drop his name, was turned away. Even Dallas Cowboy Defensive End Harvey Martin, the terror of the Super Bowl, was stopped at the door. Now that's selectivity. Or a death wish...
Western criticism only served to make the Kremlin more defiant. Soviet newspapers have run cartoons depicting Reagan as a blind cowboy and a bloody-fanged gorilla. Vitali Kobysh, a Kremlin information official, gave a five-minute TV commentary in which he said: "It is likely that no one will ever know details of the assassination of President John Kennedy or black civil rights fighter Martin Luther King, but everything is already known about the [airliner]." The outrageous implication was that U.S. secret services had staged all three tragedies and covered their tracks successfully in the Kennedy and King deaths...
...defined not so much by his political party as by his consumer preferences. It might be instructive to compare the style of the White House under Ronald Reagan with that of, say, Harry Truman. One imagines the snorting contempt with which Truman would have regarded the $1,000 cowboy boots and the Adolfo gowns...
Ralph Lauren, whose Southwest look a few seasons ago sparked interest in prairie skirts and cowboy shirts, is now touting a nautical line designed to make lifelong landlubbers look as if they belonged on a yacht. The centerpiece: a navy serge officer's jacket, complete with braided gold trim and shiny brass buttons...