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...overflowing. Everyone was there, it seemed, but Choteau's best-known citizen, A.B. Guthrie Jr., author of The Big Sky, among other celebrated works. He is 85, and the last time he came, explained his daughter, Helen Guthrie Miller, "he fell asleep in the kitchen. The next morning he woke up screaming, 'Who's making all that goddam racket!' " Helen Guthrie Miller possesses a tart tongue herself, it turns out. When a woman companion at the recital boasted that because of aerobics, she has the pulse of a 25-year- old, Helen said, "Too bad you don't have...
Ronis's mother describes him as a strong-mindedboy who never alienated anyone, despite hisflamboyant talent and ambition. She likes to tella story to illustrate her son's highly independentspirit. "As a baby I remember one time he woke meat three in the morning and I went to get him abottle of milk so he would shut up," she recalls."But when I gave him the bottle he threw it out ofthe crib and said, `I want chocolate milk...
...thunderous whine of the jet engines was followed by sudden concussive crescendos, as 500-lb. gravity bombs and 2,000-lb. Paveway II laser-guided bombs started to explode. The massive blasts shook windows throughout the city, jolting sleeping residents awake--and sometimes more than that. "When the firing woke me up, I immediately thought of throwing myself on the floor," recalled an Italian resident. "Then a big explosion...
YESTERDAY I WOKE up a little early, I think around 11:30 a.m. and walked into my common room and turned on "The Prize is Right." That's the best show on T.V.. I swear, the prizes are the greatest. After the showcase, I put on my Toronto Blue Jays baseball hat and Dillon sweats, (Those sweats are so stylish their great.) and went to lunch at the Kirkland Dining Hall...
...smoking, snorting and dealing on the job eventually became so blatant and the results so tragic that companies could no longer afford to ignore what was going on. New York-based Capital Cities/ ABC woke up to its drug troubles in 1984 after an employee collapsed at work, and subsequently died, from a cocaine overdose. Shortly thereafter, Capital Cities, which later acquired ABC, discovered organized drug dealing in one of its divisions. Last year, according to Dr. Robert Wick, corporate medical director for American Airlines, a computer operator who was high on marijuana failed to load a crucial tape into...