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...went out 2 dinnr b4 senior soiree, this old lady at e othr tabl leand ovr n askd us if it ws e nite of e prom...
...Like most things these days, it began innocently in an e-mail message. "Wait a second," I typed. "Who is this Ellis guy, anyway? B4 we interview him I'd like to know. =@)" Admittedly, the "B4" and "=@)" were lame and unnecessary--I was towards the end of a brief and disastrous experimental period with special e-mail shorthand and parenthetical-math sign-smiley faces. But the electronic response did not critique this visual jargon; instead, what I received was a nasty and merciless attack on my cultural skills and knowledge...
...handsome silver-haired businessman stretched out his 6-ft. 4-in., 170-lb. frame on the metal bunk in Cell 2 B4 of "the glass house," the downtown Los Angeles jail where male prostitutes, muggers and murderers are kept in holding pens. Arriving in the custody of FBI agents around 7:30 p.m., too late for Tuesday night's dinner, he disdained the tray of eggs, hash browns and sausage that was eventually offered. Throughout the night, he rarely slept; he just stared at the dank walls of the six-bed cell, which he occupied alone, and at the thick...
Newspapers are not allowed in Cell 2 B4. But De Lorean knew he was back in the news. The tabloid banners, though sensational, were accurate. DE LOREAN NABBED IN COAST COKE BUST blared the New York Daily News. This was no dream. He actually was under arrest and in jail, charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to acquire 220 lbs. of cocaine in the expectation of making a $50 million profit. Federal investigators described...
...years of the 1960s. Pan American World Airways ordered $500 million worth of wide-bodied L-1011-500 TriStars from California's Lockheed Corp. Eastern Airlines handed the Europeans an important victory over U.S. planemakers by closing a $778 million package deal to buy 19 A300-B4 minijumbos from Airbus Industrie, a French-German-Spanish consortium. That will be the biggest U.S. purchase of European aircraft ever...