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Though reserved, Hill was popular among classmates at Morris High School, finding time for the Pep Club and the Future Homemakers of America before graduating as valedictorian. "She was so smart it wasn't even funny," recalls Bill Bearden Sr., the former basketball coach. "She was very polite, well groomed and never missed a day of school." At Oklahoma State University, she majored in psychology, and graduated with honors in 1977. "We were both country bumpkins," says former roommate Susan Clark. "We socialized, but not to the extreme of getting rowdy...
...beginning of the end for Robert Dilenschneider when the Hill & Knowlton chief executive rose to give a pep talk to his 30 senior executives at New York City's Lotos Club last winter. "Our women," declared the boss of the largest U.S. public relations firm, had been insulted by bad language used by an executive from McDonald's, a prospective client. As a result, Dilenschneider boasted, he refused to accept the fast-food giant's business, even though he was awarded the account. "We didn't know whether to laugh or cry," recalls a top official who attended the dinner...
...Federal Aviation Administration have decided that it's time to change the rules to allow for preplanned, in-flight napping by one crew member at a time. The pilots would then be refreshed for descent and landing. The rule change might also help discourage the use of pep pills or other drugs...
...After a pep talk from Bush, the Hawaii Representative unsuccessfully ran for the late Democratic Senator Spark Matsunaga's seat...
Home is a trap, but at school the kid shucks all that and really blossoms. She's everywhere. The school dances, the annual town parade, the pep squad, the pick of the boys. O.K., so she's not an Einstein, gradewise, but she gets a college degree and dumps that dreary town and her painful homelife and heads for the Big Time...