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...Francisco, T.L.C. (for tender loving care) Suites on Nob Hill provides so many perks and useful items that its guests hardly need to leave the suite to hold meetings with colleagues, entertain clients and relax after hours. Each den has reference books and a desk filled with such basic work materials as tape, scissors, stapler and an electric pencil sharpener. A small library of movies and music is tucked into a cabinet with a VCR and compact- disc player. The T.L.C. suites also have kitchens with dishwashers and well- stocked refrigerators...
...Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began to toll. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
DIED. Sally Stanford, 78, flamboyant San Francisco madam who once served as mayor of Sausalito, Calif; in Greenbrae, Calif. Her opulent Nob Hill bordello, which opened in 1942, featured rare antiques and a 9-ft. Roman bath. Stanford, who admitted to 17 arrests and at least five husbands, relocated to Sausalito, becoming first a restaurateur and then a city council member. The subject of a 1978 TV movie, she defended prostitution to the very end, saying: "If we had more of it, we wouldn't have so much trouble...
...sitter. The Fermis won everyone's heart by living down with the showers. That did not keep the bathtub from becoming a status symbol and houses from being assigned by prestige points. To this day, "Bathtub Row" is to Los Alamos what Sutton Place is to Manhattan or Nob Hill to San Francisco...
...Mphephu and the other members of Venda's political elite, independence will bring immediate perks in the form of government-provided cars, high salaries and elegant new homes like Mphephu's $750,000 mansion on Thohoyandou's Nob Hill. But it remains to be seen whether "independence" will prove a boon to the people of an impoverished backwater area whose per capita income is only $25 a month...