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...last week, in that spacious rancho Santa Fe mansion, with the bougainvillaea in full bloom outside, 39 bodies were laid out on their backs on bunk beds, looking like so many laboratory specimens pinned neatly to a board. Each was dressed in black pants, flowing black shirt, spanking-new black Nikes. Those who wore glasses had them neatly folded next to their body. It was a remarkably well-choreographed departure. But the largest mass suicide in U.S. history blasted the doors wide open onto a considerably less tidy world--a jumbled universe of UFOs and extraterrestrials careening smack into apocalyptic...
...voted for Clinton twice. I am astonished by the boys-will-be-boys attitude expressed by the American public. I expect Clinton to show respect and keep his extracurricular activities out of our White House! KAREN RODGERS MYKLEBY Rio Rancho...
DIED. HARRY CARAY, 83, irrepressible baseball announcer who had much more to say than "Holy cow!"; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He spent nearly 60 years behind the mike, the last 27 in Chicago...
Meanwhile, the owner of the mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., where the cultists died, has taken a first round of bids on the property, which includes a sauna, a fitness room and tennis courts; even though the owner paid $30,000 to "sanitize" the house, no bid has yet come close to the mansion's pre-suicide value--about $1.5 million. The real estate agent handling the sale, Randall Bell, is an expert at moving "distressed" properties, having previously consulted, he says, on the sales of homes where Nicole Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey and Sharon Tate passed away...
DIED. STUBBY KAYE, 79, rotund and riotous singer; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Once billed as the "extra padded attraction," Kaye put every pound to showstopping effect as he rocked the boat--and Broadway--in the original Guys and Dolls. He played Nicely-Nicely Johnson onscreen too, as well as a banjo-playing minstrel in the frontier spoof Cat Ballou...