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...state police. Disappointed, he settled for a corrections job. After nine years at Angola, he moved to Louisiana's Hunt Correctional Center, where in 1983 he became The Man. "I never really had a desire to be a warden," he says. "I just kept being promoted up." (Sybil, his wife of 17 years, counters, "He says he's not ambitious. I say he is.") After retiring from the civil service in 1989, he became warden of a privately run prison in Texas. When the call came from Louisiana asking him to return, Whitley's first reaction was to laugh...
...irons and solitary confinement. At one point he severely bruised and cut himself so his captors would not dare parade him in front of their propaganda cameras. Stockdale, who still limps from his wartime injuries, was awarded the Medal of Honor and 26 combat decorations. His wife Sybil first persuaded Perot to take up the POW/MIA cause, thus paving the way for his close friendship with her husband...
...York at Buffalo. The first act, about the world she came from, is diffuse, as much panorama as autobiography. The second is more tightly personal, yet it too derives from the oldest notion of the theater -- as pure storytelling. Three stunningly gifted women describe and enact the many characters. Sybil Walker excels in sly and sassy moments, Jacqueline Williams in raucous and unaffected ones, and Cheryl Lynn Bruce radiates quiet strength. They share roles, including that of the author, with a fluidity that makes an extremely theatrical event seem natural and engagingly offhand...
...influence of the women's movement on these plays showed clearly in one of the most outstanding productions of the semester, the double-billing of August Strindberg's The Stronger and Sybil Rosen's Curves. These short plays both dealt with the relationship of two women but were strikingly different...
John McGowan of the New York A.C., upset one year ago, returned and won the grand master singles for the fifth time in six years in 21:35.35. Sybil Nestor of New York's Sagamore R.C. won the women's title in 29:55.08, defeating McGowan's wife, Carol, by nearly two seconds...