Word: fla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patti Griffiths Oklawaha, Fla...
Jude Herzog Orlando, Fla...
...unprecedented legal case, Smith, 32, is asking $1.5 million from the N.F.L. in a negligence suit. He claims that officials failed to remove the marker in time when the action flowed toward the sidelines. To help his case, Smith brought in Sportscaster Howard Cosell, who told a Tampa, Fla., courtroom that after his accident Smith was "a shell of a player." It was all too much for the jury, which couldn't come to a decision. The judge declared a mistrial...
Panama City, Fla., 1971: Carrying a hefty attaché case, U.S. Air Force Sergeant Walter T. Perkins walks to a commercial jet destined for Mexico City, where he plans to rendezvous with an agent of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence service. In the attaché case are top-secret U.S. plans for defense against a Soviet air attack. Air Force security men arrest Perkins as he boards, and his KGB contact, Oleg Shevchenko, flees Mexico for Cuba...
...better come out, we know who you are!" bellowed the FBI agent standing outside the door to a $130-a-day suite at the smart Innisbrook resort complex at Tarpon Springs, Fla. So ended a two-week hunt for the elusive Alan Abrams, the bail-jumping Boston commodity-options con man (TIME, Jan. 30) who, it is charged, under the alias "James Carr" swindled U.S. investors out of as much as $75 million...