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...Morill just turned 81. She has owned a frame duplex in southwest Hartford since 1945. Last July the bad news came. Her taxes were delinquent by more than $1,000. On an annual income of $2,080, how could she pay up? Without children, and wheelchair-bound for 25 years, Iva Morill had expected the notice. "I would lie in bed at night, worrying about my taxes...
Hugh Rogers, 20, lives with his divorced mother on the flat fringes of a city that is never named, perhaps because he cannot distinguish it from "all the suburbs, the duplex development motorhome supermarket parking lot used cars carport swingset white rocks juniper imitation bacon bits special gum wrappers where in five different states he had lived the last seven years." His astronomical address, 14067½-C Oak Valley Road, mocks the idea of a coherent community. His job as a checker in a nearby supermarket by the freeway leads nowhere, and neither, as far as he can tell, does...
...Then came a heartrending discoyery: he no longer loved her. Five years ago in Lebanon, Khashoggi divorced her. That divorce, suggests Mitchelson, was invalid. Nevertheless, citing "irreconcilable differences," Soraya last week sadly filed for a legal separation from Khashoggi, whose possessions include five jets and a $2 million Manhattan duplex complete with swimming pool. Never mind Lebanon; she filed in California, where community property laws could give her $2 billion plus $540 million for heartbreak...
Refreshments are by Lyons, rather down-market caterers who produce more than 100,000 morsels ranging from simple buttered bread to frosted chocolate cakes that accompany tea (pour your own milk) or iced coffee (no ice). Experienced guests use the duplex technique of placing larger items over smaller, thus concealing the true dimensions of the load. During the afternoon, dozens of tea plates and spoons will be slipped into handbags as souvenirs. All done with gentility. Nell Jolliffe, who was awarded the Royal Victorian medal last month for her 58 years of dishing tea at garden parties, shared an insider...
Eight days later he took a room at a boarding house five blocks from the Chi Omega sorority in Tallahassee. Early one morning, according to the state, he bludgeoned the four women, killing Lisa Levy, 20, and Margaret Bowman, 21. Then, police say, he walked six blocks to a duplex and attacked a fifth young woman, who survived...