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Robert W. Agler Delray Beach, Fla...
When he was spinning platters at a poky rock-'n'-roll station in Gainesville, Fla., during the late '60s, 'Madman Mark," as he was then known, chafed at the public service programs he was required to air. So he buried them in the doldrums of the early morning hours. Fifteen years later, balding, bespectacled Mark Fowler still does not much care for public service programming. But now, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he can do something about it. Indeed, Fowler's goal is to free broadcasters from nearly all of the thousands...
...Miami Beach, Fla. native was the captain of his high school football team, both junior and senior years...
Toole's composure collapsed only once, while explaining how he kidnaped and beheaded six-year-old Adam Walsh in Hollywood, Fla., in the summer of 1981. Adam Walsh's disappearance from a shopping mall became a national cause celebre two years ago. It led to the passage last year of the federal Missing Children Act, giving the FBI more authority to investigate disappearances of children, as well as the filming this fall of a made-for-TV movie, Adam. By coincidence, the show aired a week before Toole's prison confession, which he later recanted. But police...
...grabber: "Futuristic way of living arrives in South Florida... Bank at midnight from your living room." When Physician Alfred Damus of Coral Gables, Fla., ran across the announcement one day last week in the morning paper, his imagination went to work. With a system called Viewtron, the doctor and his wife Leatrice could monitor their bank accounts, pay bills, keep track of their stock portfolio and perform other financial tasks simply by tapping the buttons on a notebook-size keyboard. Later that morning his wife spent $600 for the Viewtron machine being advertised at a nearby Burdines department store...