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DIED. Leicester Hemingway, 67, author who wrote mostly about fishing and the outdoors in articles and six books, one of them an idolizing biography of his older (by 16 years) brother Ernest; by his own hand; in Miami Beach. His father and sister, as well as his brother, killed themselves in the face of deteriorating health. After five operations this year to stave off leg amputations from diabetes-induced circulatory problems, Leicester shot himself in the head. Two decades earlier he wrote of his brother's suicide: "Like a samurai who felt dishonored by the word or deed...
...last day of June this summer. The city of Monte Carlo was just gearing up for another prosperous summer of tourism and gambling. When my friend and I stepped off the train in Monaco (30 minutes away from our hotel in Nice, France) I was immediately reminded of what Ernest Hemingway once wrote of Switzerland: "A small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways." Closely packed high-rise apartment buildings and hotels dot the sunbaked hills of Monte Carlo, creating an atmosphere that is a dazzling and claustrophobic. We labored up a hill and, reaching its summit, gazed...
...ought easily to fill his cell, but he seems to have willed a diminished appearance in order to stay in proportion with his furnishings. Most of these hang on the walls: a chain of beads, a pair of sunglasses, snapshots of his three children. He has copied William Ernest Henley's poem "Invictus" by hand and mounted it with cellophane tape. There is a picture postcard of a sailboat at sunset below what Sy calls his "mind stimulators," words of advice on how best to study: SURVEY, QUESTION, READ, REVIEW, RECITE. Between the postcard and the sunglasses lies...
Even Wall Street joined in the general enthusiasm for the order. Said Ernest Liu, a senior vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co.: "Greene stopped short of full approval, but his acceptance of the general framework is the green light we've been waiting for." AT&T shares finished trading at 52⅞ last week...
...Connecticut law is a marked contrast to May's congressional veto of a Federal Trade Commission rule that would have required used car dealers to list known major defects on cars they sell. Says Ernest Abate, the speaker of the Connecticut house of representatives and a backer of the bill: "I wanted the legislature to be more protective of consumer interests at a time when the Federal Government was moving away from regulation...