Haired This One?: The chill of prison...

Haired This One?: The chill of prison that junk bond junkie Michael Milken will feel won’t be in his imagination. He will have to go to prison without his curly brunet hairpiece. U.S. Department of Prisons spokesman Dan Dunne said: “Hairpieces are banned” so they can’t be used “as part of a disguise or to conceal weapons, keys or contraband.” Milken was sentenced to 10 years for Wall Street irregularities.

Mr. President, Call Home: South African leader F. W. de Klerk’s plans to change apartheid laws may be overtaken by events in his own family. An unconfirmed newspaper report said De Klerk’s son, Willem, 24, would soon become engaged to Erica Adams, 22, who is classified under apartheid as Colored, or a person of mixed race. Until 1985, marriage between the races was illegal. The president said he did not know of an engagement. Adams would only acknowledge the couple had a “relationship.”

First Sport: First Lady Barbara Bush joined several professional basketball stars late last week at Piedmont Open Middle School in Charlotte, N.C., urging students to stay in school. She joked with Ralph Sampson of the Sacramento Kings and Tyrone (Muggsy) Bogues and Johnny Newman of the Charlotte Hornets. “I know I was asked to come because I’m the family jock,” she said.

Big Art: Hundreds of giant yellow umbrellas are starting to blossom in a San Joaquin Valley warehouse as the artist Christo prepares his latest work. In October, 1,760 yellow umbrellas--28 feet in diameter and 19 feet tall--will stretch 18 miles long and 2 1/2 miles wide along the Tejon Pass. Christo’s earlier works include swathing 11 Florida islands in bright pink plastic and draping a huge curtain across Colorado’s Rifle Gap. Christo said the umbrellas represent the “colonization” of land into “separate villages.”