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...monthly pension is only $43.33, and every penny of it matters to Paul Hudspeth, a North Carolina textile worker who retired in 1975 from Cannon Mills. But last April, California regulators seized the ailing Executive Life Insurance Co., slashing payments to Hudspeth and 8,800 other Cannon retirees 30%. Last week former Cannon owner David Murdock came to the rescue, promising he would make good on their losses with $800,000 of his own money, until Executive Life is shored up. Yet many blame Murdock for the mess. When he sold Cannon in 1985, Murdock replaced its pension plan with...
Elvis Presley could probably swing through parts of South Carolina in a flying saucer these days without anyone noticing. Everyone in the northwestern portion of the state is too busy trying to keep track of Doyle Arthur Cannon. In May, after getting word that his wife was leaving him for another man, Cannon fled in a dump truck from the minimum-security Oconee Law Enforcement Center near Salem, where he had been serving a 37-year sentence for killing a man in a knife fight. Since then, his narrow escapes from helicopters and police bloodhounds have become the stuff...
Local listeners are tuning in news programs for updates on Cannon's status, and DOYLE WAS HERE T shirts have popped up for sale. WMYI, a Greenville radio station, has been broadcasting a tongue-in-cheek musical tribute to the famous fugitive ("What would y'all do if I broke outa jail?"). Police are not amused. "I don't understand the logic," says Hugh Munn, a spokesman for the South Carolina law enforcement division. "He's not Davy Crockett...
...this year at a price from $40,500 to $44,000, which is about twice as much as a Jeep Cherokee costs but about the same as a Range Rover. The first customer to enlist was the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Good thing the manufacturers removed the missile launcher and cannon...
...drunkenness, to be dismissed as a political lightweight by George Bush. Back in the U.S. last week as the elected president of Russia, a sober Boris Yeltsin took the capital by storm, impressing Congress and many Americans -- if not quite Bush himself. "He used to be a loose cannon," said Senator Robert Dole, the minority leader. "Now he's a big gun." Said Bush: "Let's not forget that it was President Gorbachev's policies" that ended the cold...