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...tainted by the drug dealing and savage violence of a comparatively few miscreants. Of the 2,746 who can now be returned to Cuba, about 2,200 have been convicted of crimes in the U.S. and the rest have been in custody ever since they disembarked in Key West, Fla. More than 1,500 are in a federal prison in Atlanta. The rest are in state and local jails and mental institutions. They will be sent back gradually, beginning in January, about 100 being flown out each month as their cases come up in federal court for review...
...squad next travels to St. Petersburg, Fla. for a vacation training session in preparation for its 1985 Ivy League schedule...
When Socialite Lilly Pulitzer started selling flower-splattered print dresses in a Palm Beach, Fla., shop in 1962, her designs quickly caught the fancy of wealthy matrons from Bel Air, Calif., to Bar Harbor, Me. Pulitzer's trademark pink-and-green styles became the epitome of preppiedom and led to the opening of 33 boutiques across the country. But after nearly two decades of cachet, Pulitzer has fallen out of style and into the red. Last week her company, which had sales of more than $10 million a year in its heyday, filed for bankruptcy in order to receive...
...holding periods that may range from two days to three weeks. During that hiatus, the bank has, in effect, impounded the money since it receives credit for the check and earns interest on the funds. This angers bank customers and can impose hardships. Says Walter Dartland, a Dade County, Fla., consumer advocate: "Students who get a check from their folks back in Iowa, for example, might have to wait two to three weeks before they can use the money. That puts them in a real bind...
...failed to train its pilots properly, postponed aircraft inspections and allowed unqualified mechanics to maintain electrical gear. The emergency grounding gives credence to suspicions that were aroused in September by a tragic error. A propeller-driven PBA plane crash-landed and burned shortly after taking off from a Naples, Fla., airport; one passenger was killed and four others were injured. It was the first fatality in PBA's history. FAA investigators found that a member of PBA's ground crew had mistakenly filled the plane's tanks with kerosene jet fuel instead of aviation gasoline, which caused...