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Several rows back sits Elbert Seiter, 48. Seiter is a foreman for a trucking company. His face is deeply lined; an ironed shirt gleams white against sun-beaten skin. "I worked construction all my life, and it's rough," says Seiter. "This is a rough sport, and I like it." Karen Stoffel, a secretary with a finance company, is there too. She has come with her husband Gary, a trackman for the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway, and their daughter Courtney, 6. A heavyset woman with round, cheerful cheeks, Mrs. Stoffel says, "Wrestling is a release from...
...American prisoners were more forthcoming in their praise. Elbert Cheatham, 44, of Lynchburg, Va., was accused by the Cubans of possessing 1,700 pounds of marijuana when he was arrested in 1983. As he left Dulles Airport to drive home with his family, Cheatham shouted, "Tell Jackson thanks a million! Jesse Jackson is Jesus Christ right...
Fifty years ago, on a hot, muggy day in mid-June, about 200 young women filed into Agassiz Hall, their long white dresses peeking through their black robes as they marched to their seats. At the graduation rehearsal earlier that morning, Ethelind Elbert Austin '30 recalls, one of the matrons had informed the anxious group of Radcliffe seniors that, after eating some spoiled dormitory food the previous evening, serveral young women had been stricken with upset stomachs. The graduation caps, the matron suggested, would make convenient containers during the afternoon ceremony. Fortunately, all the caps stayed pinned to the graduates...
Three lawyers, including Clark, argued before Federal Judge Elbert Tuttle that the court-appointed lawyers who defended Spenkelink at his trial were ineffective. In Washington, Lawyer Joel Berger went from Justice to Justice. Finally, Thurgood Marshall ordered that the execution be stayed. Almost simultaneously, Judge Tuttle...
...Three Marines: Sergeant Abel Kavanaugh, Staff Sergeant Alfonso Riate and Private Frederick Elbert; and five Army men: Specialist Four Michael P. Branch, Staff Sergeant Robert Chenoweth, Staff Sergeant James A. Daly Jr., Staff Sergeant King Rayford Jr. and Staff Sergeant John A. Young...