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Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson doesn't surfer the kind of deformity that causes people to point or stare. With her pretty girl-next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she readily admits, she is treated better than most of her fellow disabled Americans. But Joni Eareckson, 31, is totally paralyzed from the neck down...
...professional rodeo circuit he is known as Mac Baldrige, a steer roper who finishes in the money about a third of the time (for $1,605 in prizes last year). To the uninitiated he is Malcolm Baldrige, chairman of Scovill Inc., a power in Connecticut Republican affairs and a close friend of Vice President-elect George Bush's. As Ronald Reagan's choice for Secretary of Commerce, Baldrige will bring to Washington -a proven capacity for managing, along with the practice lasso he keeps by his desk...
...prosecutors took advantage of an unusual provision in a 1970 law that allows the Government to appeal certain sentences. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal on the grounds that a review of the original sentence would violate the Constitution's prohibition against double jeopardy. But last week the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that the Constitution does not go that far. It prevents Government appeals of actual verdicts, the Justices ruled, but not of sentences. The decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, seemed to some experts to cut two ways. While it may comfort hard...
...some 8,000 volumes within its walls. L'Amour is secretive about his age; published estimates put him in his early 70s, but he has the look and vigor of a man much younger, turning out three novels a year with metronomic regularity. He shuns the Hollywood party circuit...
...legal community assembled in the Cash Room of the Treasury Department to enter their pleas before the quadrennial salary commission. Some of the testimony was melodramatic. Said Federal District Court Judge Charles Joiner: "I speak to you of naked and defenseless men and women." Many jurists, added Circuit Court Judge Irving Kaufman, will be reduced to writing letters asking "how they might tell their children that they cannot afford to send them to college." Other spokesmen have been somewhat more restrained. "We ask judges to be purer than Caesar's wife, but we don't pay them what...