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...Robert A. Sullivan Starke, Fla...
...speed. In La Porte, Ind., a sniper fired at an 18-wheeler, missed, and hit Schoolteacher Chris Balawender, 35, in the hip while he was driving a van loaded with eleven children. He managed to keep the vehicle under control, averting a major tragedy. One driver in Tampa, Fla., roused by fellow truckers, awoke in his cab's sleeping compartment to find his trailer engulfed in flames. To protect themselves, many truckers traveled only by day, and then only in convoys. At night, drivers jammed rigs into crowded truck-stop parking lots platooned with police and extra security guards...
When Stockbroker Marina Verola, 29, agreed to pose for the March issue of Playboy both in and out of her pin-stripe suit, it was, she said, "to show that beauty and brains can go together." Her employer, the Dean Witter Reynolds office in Boca Raton, Fla., was apparently not convinced. According to Verola, she informed her employers of the modeling offer last July and was abruptly fired. Then, she claims, Dean Witter lured away her clients with unspecified "inferences and innuendoes." She and her husband Victor, 36, a broker at the same firm, say they shared 125 clients...
...pelvis. Robert, with the luck of those pure souls who chase White Goddesses, was unharmed. Riding left Graves on the eve of World War H to live with Schuyler Jackson, an American farmer with a Princeton degree and literary leanings. They eventually went into the fruit business in Wabasso, Fla. Graves married Beryl Hodge, had four more children and continued to pursue younger goddesses from Majorca to Mexico...
Fiat officials blamed competition from the Japanese for the demise. Indeed, almost as the company called it quits in the U.S., it was introducing, in Orlando, Fla., of all places, a new small car for the European market where competition from the Japanese is minuscule. Fiat might return to America at another time, says a company vice president, with "the right car at the right moment...