AN 'H' AND TWO 'D'S, AND ISN'T A SEVEN-LETTER WORLD FOR ANYTHING: Today was not a good day for Colonels, whether it's the tyrant who looked much more studly and un-Jeffrey-Ross-like in 1970 and died today without having avenged Emmett "Doc" Brown's theft of his plutonium in 1985, or the one with wee, beady eyes from Kentucky, who counterbalanced all the positive publicity this week from adding bacon to his Famous Bowls by the actions of his branch in West Sussex, England, which declined to honor a reservation request from John Travolta because KFC doesn't take reservations. (What, did he want a table overlooking the kitchen?) Back to that ordinary citizen who relies on the Times crossword for stimulation:
