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...stores up to world-class par. Ford, who designed the Gucci stores with the help of William Sofield, enlisted Sofield's help for YSL. The first prototype opened in December in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The second, shown here, opened at the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California last month. But these stores are still works-in-progress. This fall, Ford's Saint Laurent stores will go head-to-head with the vanity projects of his competitors. The YSL store on Madison Avenue and 71st Street will be the first to feature the finished look...
DIED. FRANKIE CARLE, 97, durable, melodic Big Band leader, composer and pianist (a.k.a. "the Golden Touch") of the '40s and '50s, best known for Sunrise Serenade, which he co-wrote and became his theme; in Mesa, Ariz. Carle wrote such vintage standards as Falling Leaves and Roses in the Rain...
That is changing, however, as word of their benefits spreads--and as doulas come up with creative ways of expanding their services. Stephanie Soderblom of Mesa, Ariz., has a nontraditional and nondiscriminatory fee system. She asks $450 for a birth but will do payment plans, sliding scale and even barter for services. Says Soderblom: "I'll never do a birth for free, but I've done births for a quilt, a picture frame and even homemade cookies." Her payment philosophy comes from her experiences working with young, single mothers. "I didn't want these girls to feel as if they...
CHARGED. JOSEPH MESA JR., 20, freshman at Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf; with two counts of felony murder; in Washington. Mesa, a resident of Guam, dismayed and relieved a terror-stricken campus by admitting that robbery was his motive for killing two freshmen classmates in their dorms, one early this month with the victim's own knife. The other, weak with cerebral palsy, was bludgeoned to death last year. Mesa had no criminal record and had planned to devote his career to the deaf...
...equal protection. Here the much more united court held that in the absence of objective ballot-counting standards, further "recounts" would violate the equal-protection guarantees of the 14th Amendment. Without clear standards, there was no way that the court could agree to further recounts. GEORGE NEIIENDAM Costa Mesa, Calif...