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...circuit to more than 30 reporters, Evans was secured in the electric chair, known as "Yellow Mama," at the Holman prison near Atmore, Ala. Two guards pulled straps around his shaved head, attached electrodes to his scalp and leg, and left him rigid in the chair, looking small and pale...
...doing business with Hanoi. Washington also lobbies against United Nations development grants for the country and discourages other nations from offering aid. "Basically, Viet Nam has isolated itself by its actions," contended Secretary of State George Shultz during a Far Eastern swing last February. "Its behavior is outside the pale...
...fits and seizures while the hospital orderlies argue with a nurse over the incentives necessary to convince them to wheel away this ailing charge, who has had the audacity to collapse at the end of a shift. Anderson has a gift for such comically macabre scenes: while the pale old man flails about helplessly, the orderlies argue with the nurse over whether they will get a side order of bacon in their extra-incentive breakfast...
...small wonder that each year hundreds of college students head south for spring break. Overworked and pale, they descend on Dixie hoping to find their place...
...House of Representatives (an approximate swing of 22), Hawke and his Laborites ended the 7½-year reign of Incumbent Malcolm Fraser and his Liberal/ National Party coalition. Fraser, a three-time winner whose majorities in 1975 and 1977 were the largest in Australian history, tersely conceded defeat. Then, pale and close to tears, he stunned supporters by announcing his immediate resignation as Liberal leader...