Unabomber-style outfit found in Kaczysnki's cabin

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Federal agents searching the Montana cabin of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczysnki found aviator sunglasses and a sweatshirt similar to those seen by the only known witness to a Unabomber attack, the San Francisco Examiner reported yesterday.

The newspaper, citing an unnamed law enforcement official, said the shirt and glasses were found on Tuesday.

The newspaper also said Kaczynski - who had no telephone - devised a mail code with his family to enable him to recognize important letters.

An employee at a Salt Lake City computer store had seen a man with a moustache, dark aviator glasses and hooded sweatshirt put something under the wheel of her car on Feb. 20, 1987. When another worker moved the item, it exploded and injured him. The FBI used her description as the basis for the widely distributed composite drawing of the suspected Unabomber.

Founder of 'The Hokey Pokey' dies

(AP) - Larry LaPrise, aka The Hokey Pokey Man, died last week at age 83 in Boise, Idaho, after a career that brought him no fame, modest fortune, and a job with the Postal Service.

That's right. Someone actually wrote ''The Hokey Pokey.''

''I just assumed it had been around forever,'' said a shocked Leyah Strauss of New York. Even before LaPrise's death, Strauss, a jeweler, had been planning to stage a mass Hokey Pokey-in at a New York landmark like Grand Central station.

The Hokey Pokey, it turns out, isn't so old after all.

LaPrise, whose full name was Roland Lawrence LaPrise, concocted the song along with two musicians in the late 1940s for the aprÉs ski crowd at a nightclub in Sun Valley, Idaho. The group, the Ram Trio, recorded the song in 1949.

Gumbel's remarks on Brown's death stun Republicans

NEW YORK (AP) - NBC's ''Today'' show anchor Bryant Gumbel, prodded by the GOP, may have to eat his words for suggesting that Republicans failed to express their condolences to Ron Brown's family.

Gumbel was in Washington, D.C., for yesterday's broadcast to cover the Commerce secretary's funeral when he made the remark in an interview with Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.

''Although many have praised Ron lavishly, I understand no Republicans have yet expressed condolences to the Brown family,'' Gumbel said. ''Is that politics as usual, or is that just plain bad manners?''

Gumbel's remark sat poorly with the Republican National Committee.

''We were just stunned ... that anyone would respond to a tragedy like this in a partisan way,'' said Mary Mead Crawford, the RNC's press secretary.