Word: columbus
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Randall Adams did not complain when Continental Flight 140 from Houston to Columbus took off 20 minutes behind schedule last Thursday. He was already twelve years late leaving Dallas County, Texas, which he says had become his "hell on earth." In 1976, several weeks after Adams found a job repairing pallets, he was arrested for the slaying of a Dallas policeman. At one point, with only three days to spare, he was saved from execution by a U.S. Supreme Court stay while the Justices considered a legal technicality...
This week, the FBI arrested two New York men in connection with the MFA theft. George Athanatos, 34, and Ronald Corteselli, 28, are now also being investigated in connection with thefts in Detroit, Columbus, Albany, Syracuse, Baltimore and San Francisco...
...price tags on 1.5 billion pieces of merchandise, Sears recruited a temporary army of retirees and high school students. Together with regular Sears employees, the price changers wielded 29,000 label guns. Said Chris Skinner, a high school freshman who worked at the Sears outlet in Columbus' Northland Mall: "The worst was the screwdrivers. You had to take them all down, clean each one by hand, then put them all back...
However, each program will also carry four 30-second ads, causing some educators to worry about the encroachment of commercialism on the classroom. "Do we want our young people to get the idea from school that buying fast food is as important as learning when Columbus discovered America?" asks Patricia Albjerg Graham, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Adds Bella Rosenberg, an official at the American Federation of Teachers: "By showing commercials, schools are implicitly endorsing the product." Others charge that principals are selling their students' souls for a pile of high- tech hardware. Says Peggy Charren...
Though tales of libidinous mischief on Capitol Hill are not exactly rare, the allegations that surfaced last week about the sexual conduct of an Ohio Congressman came as something of a shock. In a conversation secretly videotaped by a Columbus television station last November, Republican Donald Lukens talked with Anna Coffman, an unemployed widow, in a fast-food restaurant about his relationship with the woman's daughter, now 17. "I couldn't understand a man in your position, why you're messin' around with these teenagers," said Coffman. Replied Lukens, who turns 58 this week: "I didn't really know...