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Ford ate his usual cottage-cheese lunch in his little private hideaway; stripped bare of photographs and mementos, the office seemed as impersonal as a motel room. In the Oval Office, Ford exclaimed, "Look at this! My desk has never been so clean in my life...
...lawyers, Robert Moody and Ronald Stanger; and Lawrence Schiller, a West Coast promoter who owns the rights to Gilmore's story. Warden Sam Smith invited them to say farewell, and then read to him the court's sentence of death for the murder of a young motel manager. Gilmore peered around the cold, harshly lit room, stared at the warden for a moment and finally said...
...leaving him paralyzed? Does Mr. Schorr sincerely feel that "Gilmore has had no alternative but to follow his life of crime" when Gilmore by his own admission "didn't just kill him for the money"? "I just hate to be told what to do. It [the murder of the motel manager] was something that couldn't be stopped" (New York Times 11/15/76)--because, Mr. Schorr would have us believe, of society...
After the ordination, Means' friends gathered in celebration around a motel bar. "It was a fantastic event," said Richard Pelley, a neighbor who provided homemade wine for the service. "She's worked like hell to get here under some of the worst conditions." Remarked the new priest's husband Delton, "Being a truck driver I've been associated with women drivers before, so it's not really so new." Then he added: "I'm tickled pink...
...drinking water. Duluth now gets asbestos-free drinking water from a new $7 million filtration plant, largely financed by the Federal Government, but the animosity against Silver Bay lingers. "This is a hell of a way to live," complains Gene Jadwin, 37, owner of the Silver Bay Motel. "This anxiety is really hard on your family life." Marital tensions have risen as the town's predicament has worsened; there were five divorces in 1971 and 30 in 1975. "We're seeing a lot of stress-related symptoms," says Dr. Donald Haase, 53, one of the town...