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Told in court that his brother had called him unstable, De Villemandy shrugged: "With good reason. Your Honor." Bernard Barbance, 27, is the son of a bus driver, was an apprentice florist before going into the army as a paratrooper. Baby-f aced Barbance, explained a court psychiatrist, was motivated by "the desire to achieve virility...
...Blue Monday was having direct consequences in some industries. The luxury trade was hurting most. At Perino's, an expense-account restaurant in Los Angeles, business was off 10%. The nationwide Ask Mr. Foster travel service noted a decline in sales of luxury tours. A Beverly Hills florist moaned: "People are still getting married, having babies and birthdays, but dammit, they're not saying it with flowers." (One jeweler reported a pickup in sales of diamonds, presumably to buyers who had decided that rocks are safer than stocks.) There were some other signs of consumer caution. Savings deposits...
Although St. Paul conducts its local elections without partisan labels, it counts as a definitely Democratic city. Accordingly, it came as a surprise two years ago when plodding George Vavoulis, owner of a small florist shop, got elected mayor by 6,000 votes; Vavoulis ran as an independent, but was regarded as a Republican. Accepted explanation for the upset: Vavoulis' opponent, supported by Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor alliance, was overconfident, waged too easygoing a campaign. When Vavoulis ran for reelection this year, the D.F.L. candidate campaigned strenuously, placed newspaper ads picturing himself and President Kennedy...
...florist bill for funerals of dead Democrats alone runs about $800 a year," Neil Staebler, a soft-spoken man with a scraggly mustache and baggy pants, once said. But Staebler's real concern is for live Democrats-and he has found enough to make Michigan a Democratic stronghold. As Democratic state chairman, Staebler designed, built and oiled the machine that kept "Soapy" Williams in the Governor's mansion from 1949 to 1960, and that elected Lieutenant Governor John Swainson, 36, as his successor. For weeks Staebler has been hunting for a strong Democratic candidate to run for Michigan...
...Theodore Roethke, 54, a florist's son from Michigan, who currently teaches English at the University of Washington, is perhaps the most richly gifted and certainly the most exasperating of the three. In much of his poetry he writes like a self-made idiot, a regressive pioneer who chooses to explore the primary ground of being. The ground is often boggy ("Bring me a finger. The dirt's lonesome for grass...