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...Variety Children's Hospital in Miami, where Elin was staying, asked a local court to allow an operation. Last week, after a hearing that featured a former March of Dimes poster child smiling in her wheel-chair as evidence that afflicted children can lead happy lives, Judge Ralph Ferguson ordered doctors to operate. As a result, Elin can expect to live at least six to eight years. Said the couple's attorney, Milton Kelner: "They are loving, caring parents. Is it not the right of the parents to decide the course of their child...
...jail for cocaine habits, but Football Players Randy Crowder and Donald Reese of the Miami Dolphins were not so lucky. Arrested in 1977 for trying to sell a pound of coke to undercover police, they were sent to the Dade County stockade for a year. Texas Rangers Pitcher Ferguson Jenkins made headlines with his arrest and conviction last year after Canadian customs officials found cocaine, marijuana and hashish in his suitcase. Although Jenkins' conviction was erased, he was suspended for two weeks by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Last February, Thomas ("Hollywood") Henderson, a former Dallas Cowboys linebacker, checked...
...faculty members. The executive committee on Afro-American studies created by Rosovsky in the fall of 1979, remains a symbol of administration dominance for those who believe it has tried to deprive the department of the right to govern its own affairs. The committee chaired by C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law, was given responsibility for making most of the department's policies and decisions, although Huggins says its only role during the past year has been assisting in the search for candidates to fill the department's tenured chairs. Although the executive committees of almost all other departments consist...
Calling Calhoun's speech "brilliant" and "absolutely true," Ferguson said "we are in the process of designing a new world order" adding, "we don't have any Blacks designing this new world order." "Blacks aren't prepared to defend their interests," he said...
...Johnson said "he was profoundly disturbed" by Calhoun's and Ferguson's statements. Blacks may not have much economic power, Johnson said, but they should consider that less important than retaining their cultural identity...