Jackie Kennedy Onassis items fetch millions at Sotheby's sale
A dusted set of Jackie Kennedy Onassis possessions sold for staggering sums at a four day auction. Golf clubs brought 1.2 million while wine coasters, a crumb sweeper and a cigarette lighter drew 400 000 and 85 000 respectively. Sotheby’s total lifted to 34.5 million marking a historic sale.
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Sotheby's
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jackie
Janet Lee Bouvier
Partagas
Monte Cristos
Sotheby’s
Roswell school board grants diploma to special education student
In Roswell a school board approved a diploma for a special education student after a curriculum coordinator's request, with state superintendent approval pending. The meeting included state Sen Tim Jennings and his wife, while community voices questioned administration and board priorities amid leadership changes.
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Clinton
Roswell
Tim Jennings
D-Roswell
Herbert Wolters
Army Commendation Medal awarded to Capt. Michael Beasley
Capt. Michael Beasley of Roswell receives the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service as company commander with the 5th AIT Brigade Fort Polk Louisiana while serving in Vietnam as a MACV adviser. He is from Santa Fe and married to Charlotte Tyner with two daughters. The Goddard High School Future Farmers of America held its first banquet with 91 attendees and seven members earning awards. The old Greer's Drive-In building near New Mexico Military Institute property is being removed by the NMMI Foundation after a fire long ago, described as an eyesore.
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Michael Beasley
Roswell
AIT
Fort Polk
Beasley
Vietnam
MACV
Santa Fe
Charlotte Tyner
Roy V. Tyner
N. Kansas Ave
Laura Elizabeth
Joy Diana
Goddard High School
Future Farmers of America
Danny Sons
Earl Eakin
David Randle
Carl Koren
Greg Alpers
Reed Curtis
Burl Lewis
Greer's
New Mexico Military Institute
North Main Street
Nmmi Foundation
Johnson upsets another GOP in New Mexico
Governor Gary Johnson faces anger from GOP leaders over a line item veto that kept 100000 dollars for Otero County public lands appeal. Former Sen. Charlie Lee calls Johnson a damned liar while lamenting a betrayal of support and the broader veto pattern shaping the 1997 legislative outlook.
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Santa FE
Gary Johnson
Charlie Lee
Otero County
Johnson
U.S
United States States
New Mexico
Congress
Statehood
U.S. Supreme Court
Lee
Hatch Courier
Adam Wash
New Mexico Cattle Growers
New Mexico Farm Bureau
New Mexico Wool Growers
Public Land Council
People For the West
Tim Jennings
Roswell
What use is a computer to the individual American
In a broad meditation on computing, authors reflect on how computers and the Internet alter daily work for journalists, writers, and librarians. The piece notes vast data growth, storage relief, and the challenge of finding precise facts, recounting a personal pursuit to learn when Thomas Jefferson served as ambassador in Paris (1784 1789) using online tools.
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Arthur Schlesinger
Thomas Jefferson
Paris
Jefferson
New York City
France
Gas taxes and gas prices fuel campaign drama
In a heated campaign cycle gas prices become a political weapon as Clinton and Dole press for tax cuts and oil sales. Prices hover around 1.36 a gallon with California hit hardest, while the administration and Republicans trade moves on gas tax repeal and energy policy amid broad economic stakes.
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Clinton
Bush
Carter
Ford
Senate
Dole
Democratic National Committee
White House
Mike McCurry
California
United States
Newt Gingrich
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Ed Rothschild
Citizen Action
Rothschild
Reagan
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Mark Mellman
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