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Lucas fingered Toole, currently serving a 20-year sentence in Raiford, Fla., for arson, as his most frequent accomplice. During subsequent interviews with police, Toole, Lucas' occasional lover, claimed more than 50 murders of his own, mostly of young men. Like Lucas, Toole was chillingly matter of fact in the telling. "It's as though he were discussing the weather," reported one detective...
...also here at the hospital that we encountered the American volunteer doctor from the medical school described by the Inspector. Among all the other broken fragments, it somehow did not seem so unnatural that the doctor was a Cuban-but from a family of exiles living in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Dr. Raúl Jirménez, 31, had made his way to the hospital soon after watching the first paratroopers dropping from the sky near his home facing the stretch of wide white beach known as Grand Anse. He had been here ever since. The hospital, he said...
...ARGUED...," the U.S. supreme court ruled in 1969, that "students shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate. "But before and since, an unholy alliance of school administrators, parents, and courts have done just that--often explicitly defending those infringement of students' constitutional rights. In schools in Broward county, Fla., administrators now greet students by painting "Lockers are subject to search" in the hallways. As the rising tide of cries for tighter discipline roll across the country, they often sweep student rights back past the proverbial schoolhouse gate...
...earnest voice on the telephone described the offer as a sure thing. By sending $8,784 to the U.S. Oil and Gas Corp. in Coral Gables, Fla., the customer would be guaranteed-in writing-to win a lease worth $25,000 for the oil and gas rights on a parcel of U.S. Government land. Between September 1982 and June 1983, some 66,000 people drew down savings and took out loans to send the company money...
DIED. Kurt Debus, 74, German scientist who was director from 1952 to 1974 of NASA'S Cape Canaveral facility (now the Kennedy Space Center), overseeing such landmark projects as the launches of the first U.S. manned spaceflight and Apollo 11 's moon mission; of a heart attack; in Cocoa, Fla. Debus worked closely with Wernher von Braun, the father of modern rocketry, to design the Nazis' V-2 rocket booster, then became a passionately loyal American cit izen after the German surrender. In the 1950s he worked on the Army's first missile capable of carrying and delivering a nuclear...