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DIED. RUTH ROMAN, 74, actress who combined good-girl wholesomeness with bad-girl edge; in Laguna Beach, Calif. She starred in more than 30 films, inlcuding Champion, Strangers on a Train and Colt...
DIED. ALLEN FUNT, 84, creator of Candid Camera; in Pebble Beach, Calif. Funt started the hit show on the radio after experimenting with concealed microphones in the Army during World War II. Candid Camera aired on TV, on and off, from 1948 to 1990. Among the oddities Funt delighted in watching puzzled humans react to: trick coffee cups, talking mailboxes and bowling balls without finger holes...
While most other freshmen spent their summers on the beach or saying long farewells to their high school girlfriends, aspiring wide receiver Kyle Cremarosa spent his last summer before college in Cambridge, working out with starting quarterback Brad Wilford...
Some 2 million people evacuated Florida's coastal areas in advance of Hurricane Floyd's predicted onslaught, but although the winds blew strong in West Palm Beach, the hurricane did not come ashore...
...between minority and majority students." But a change in dress, particularly to a uniform, can have numerous positive effects. Students may become more self-confident and self-disciplined, less judgmental of other students, better able to resist peer pressure and concentrate on schoolwork. Jean Hartman of Long Beach, Calif., was once an opponent of uniforms. But after they were made mandatory in her children's school district--where 66,000 students in 56 elementary schools, 14 middle schools and one high school now wear them--there were "fewer disruptions, fewer suspensions, better attendance," according to Dick Van Der Laan...