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When Princess Grace of Monaco died last summer in an auto crash, her brother John B. Kelly Jr., 55, led the members of their prominent Philadelphia family at the funeral. Last week Kelly was shot by a mugger near a gas station in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The onetime Olympic oarsman, in town to give a rowing demonstration, was making a call from a phone booth when he was approached by a man with a small-caliber revolver who demanded money. Kelly tried to push him away, and the man shot him in the thigh. Kelly's doctors...
...close imitation was taken, possibly sincerely, as flattery in the Lantana, Fla., headquarters of the Enquirer. Said Enquirer Editor Iain Calder, 43: "Obviously, I noticed the similarity. It's another confirmation that we are No. 1." Hendra's partner and publisher, Larry Durocher, 42, joked in an interview that the major difference between the publications is that the spoof is stapled together, while the Enquirer is merely folded. Then he noted another distinction that probably ought to matter to the 11 million credulous readers of the major U.S. scandal tabloids. Said Durocher: "We make no claim that...
...company began opening retail stores, not only to sell such staples as electric typewriters, but also to position it for a move into the fast-expanding personal computer field. In 1980 top management secretly gave the go-ahead to an engineering team, cloistered at a plant in Boca Raton, Fla., to begin designing a small computer (the project was code-named Acorn). Twelve months later, the PC was rolling off the production line. Breaking with tradition, IBM had used many non-IBM components: the TV monitor came from Taiwan, the printer from Japan and the microprocessor from Intel Corp...
Richard Herold Key West, Fla...
First-class poverty law programs still exist-in Portland, Ore., in Minneapolis, in Palm Beach County, Fla.-but they all enjoy sturdy funding from local government. Many of the more embattled programs are trying new techniques to hold the line. The Atlanta Legal Aid Society has new 45-min. instructional videotapes for its clients. Explains Director Steven Gottlieb: "We show them how to handle dispossession, how to negotiate with landlords, how to do things for themselves in court if they have to." Leaders of the Florida bar are trying to make it mandatory for members to give 25 hours...