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...cafe con leche with a roll in his favorite cafe. At that moment two men entered, took out some enormous pistols and shot at the senator. Innocent or guilty, what is certain is that the senator was eating a roll when they killed him, staining his white linen suit with spilled blood and cafe con leche...
Judges have been imposing increasingly tough rulings on prison authorities in the past few years. But Johnson went well beyond his judicial confreres to lay down an extraordinarily detailed set of standards that Alabama's prisons and other penal facilities must meet-from a weekly change of bed linen and "three wholesome and nutritious meals" a day to almost halving the current 4,400 inmate population and nearly doubling the 383 guards at the state's four largest institutions. The judge ordered that every inmate be given "a meaningful job," a chance to take "basic educational programs...
...Tuesday I pieced out a combination I loved--a brown linen dress and a white silk blouse with brown polka dots. Wednesday I wore a floral blouse with a melon red suit, Thursday a white blouse with a bright yellow linen suit I had purchased in London when I was working for the marihuana commission. On Friday, I wore a burgundy blouse with white polka dots, a white skirt, and a navy blue blazer...
...chorus girl of 16, was "the kindest, most innocent, naive person you'd ever want to meet." Despite the millions he spent on his 300,000-acre estate at San Simeon in California, he provided his guests with paper napkins (he considered them more sanitary than linen). Few seemed to mind, including Calvin Coolidge, who once dropped by for a visit after retiring from politics. Davies impishly served the teetotaling former President tokay wine, while assuring him that it was nonalcoholic. "He started talking at dinner, and kept on drinking the tokay," she recalled. Said the not-so-silent...
...university--yet at Harvard, Hall just can't keep himself out of the news. He is front-page copy almost weekly. Whether mis-ordering storm windows, authorizing bursar cards that would require palm prints to cut down on the number of people passing them around, or airing dirty linen in the faces of other administrators, Hall is constantly at center stage--he's the Mrs. Malaprop of bureaucrats...