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...Sometimes they even re-register. Lee Rae Ulrich of San Diego married for a second time recently and signed up again because "everything I had was worn out." By the time Kathleen Sconyers Craft and Paul Jernigan Boehmig, both 32, got married on May 31 in an upscale Atlanta suburb, they had already had a linen shower, a household-item shower, a bar shower and a kitchen shower...
...important," Paul Webking told the medical examiner's office after his wife died unexpectedly June 11, "but Sue opened a new bottle of Excedrin capsules this morning and took two." Tragically, it was important. The bottle opened by Sue Snow, a 40-year-old banker from the Seattle suburb of Auburn, was found to contain three capsules laced with cyanide. When county officials released the bottle's lot number, Auburn Neighbor Stella Nickell, whose husband died June 5, called police with more bad news. Bruce Nickell's death, linked originally to natural causes, was reattributed to cyanide poisoning. In response...
...roots and values. Like Reagan, Rehnquist left his boyhood home in the Midwest to head for the Far West, where he embraced the frontier verities of rugged individualism and a respect for law-and-order. The son of a paper salesman, Rehnquist grew up in the quiet Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood. After serving three years in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he used the G.I. Bill to go to Stanford. Graduating first in his class from Stanford Law (a classmate was Sandra Day O'Connor), he was selected to clerk on the Supreme Court for Justice Robert...
...Bolton, Mass., a town that traditionally earned its living by raising swine. Newcomers to the town proposed an ordinance limiting new piggeries to a maximum of eight swine. They were angrily voted down. A man named Stephen Kenney was hauled before the village court in the Buffalo suburb of Kenmore and ordered to cut the growth in his front yard or be fined. He explained that the six-foot-high stand of weeds was in fact a meadow of wild flowers, "a natural yard, growing the way God intended." Wrong, said the court. The yard was a hazard to drivers...
...their devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and their charitable works. Through the De Rance Foundation, which Harry started in 1946 with an inherited 46% interest in the Miller Brewing Co., they funded everything from leper colonies in Africa to antipoverty programs in hometown Milwaukee. Residing in the unpretentious suburb of Wauwatosa, the Johns cherished obscurity as a virtue commended by the 17th century Trappist monk Armand Jean De Rance, for whom Harry named the foundation. Though De Rance became the world's largest Catholic charity, the Johns stayed out of the spotlight...