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Margaret Webb Royal Oak, Mich...
...antiwar acts (see story page 15). He also issued a statement urging Americans to save energy by turning down their thermostats to 65° F. in the daytime and even lower at night. Carter found time to select the desk he will use in the Oval Office: made of oak timbers from the British ship Resolute, and a present to President Rutherford Hayes from Queen Victoria, it was last used by John Kennedy...
...hire a train to take Plains to Washington," said Maxine. Now she had the train-and an $85,000 bill from Amtrak. As she settled into her seat, the ample Maxine also had a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a "pair of thermal underwear that would stretch around a live oak tree," and a new lowcut, black Inaugural dress. "We're going to tear up Pennsylvania Avenue," she chirped...
...Born in Oak Grove, La., Marshall was sent at about the age of twelve to a Baptist orphanage in Jackson, Miss., along with his four younger brothers and sisters, after their mother died. At 15, he ran away and got a job making dentures in a dental factory. After a few months, he lied about his age to get into the Navy and served as a radioman in the Pacific during World...
...much-publicized case of Karen Quinlan, rather than in the context of capital crimes. Until Gilmore's request, the responsibility for determining society's role in the fulfillment of an individual's death-wish had been largely confined to doctors in sanitary hospital halls. Now jurists sitting in oak-panelled courtrooms must also contemplate the question...