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Barfield spent her last months crocheting dolls for two of her grandchildren, reading religious literature and talking to reporters, who dubbed her the Death Row Granny. Democratic Governor James Hunt, locked in a tight race to win Republican Jesse Helms' Senate seat, refused to grant clemency, and last week her final court appeal was rejected. At 2 a.m. on Friday, wearing pink pajamas, Barfield was executed by lethal injection at North Carolina Central Prison. She said, "I am sorry for all the hurt I have caused...
...over the years, as several lifetimes of gardening skills are applied to the grounds, the retirement community is brought to bursting with blooming things. The spare quarters, with their high toilet seats and their panic buttons, are fashioned into homes. Favorite art adorns some walls, wedding parties and grandchildren perch on the others. Acceptance is slow, but it arrives...
...strains between the President and his strict Fundamentalist friends. Cal Thomas, vice president of Moral Majority and a syndicated columnist, has expressed a few qualms about Reagan's private life. Thomas wrote last week that the President should spend more time with his family ("He never sees his grandchildren"), give more money to charity ("He gives less than Mondale"), and go to church more often than every few months...
...reasons for moving from California to New York in 1980 was to be nearer his daughters. Tricia lives in Manhattan with her lawyer-husband Edward Cox; Julie in Berwyn, Pa., with her husband David Eisenhower, who is writing a book on his grandfather. Nixon delights in his four grandchildren, Jennie Eisenhower, 5, Alex Eisenhower, 3, Melanie Eisenhower, 6 weeks, and Christopher Cox, 5. When first asked what he wanted Jennie to call him, Nixon thought for a moment and then solemnly suggested that "R.N. would be nice"; he happily settled for her addressing him as "Ba." The older children frequently...
...tell your children about," said Anita Saunders, a high-stepper with the Locke Senior High School marching band, "and everybody else." Said Judi Missett, president of Jazzercise and one of 263 Jazzercise instructors who danced to Sing, Sing, Sing: "When I'm 85, I can hold my grandchildren on my kee and say, 'Remember the '84 Olympics? Well, Grandma was there.'" Mel Carpenter, a Hacienda Heights dentist who brought to the show the 200 white homing pigeons that circled around toward the end, got into the act on a mission of peace. Carpenter thinks the doves...