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...buying a gun for self-protection, even some convicted criminals. Consider the case of E. Howard Hunt, 62, who served 33 months in federal prisons, was fined $10,000 for his role in the 1972 Watergate break-in at Democratic National Headquarters, and is now living in Miami Shores, Fla. As a felon, Hunt is barred by law from owning a firearm. The former CIA agent appealed last April to state authorities, telling them he wanted a shotgun to carry on a family tradition -hunting. Last week, the writer and sometime lecturer also declared that he needed...
...Sloppy ground and air service on Pan Am domestic flights have also tarnished its once shining reputation. Moreover, National's employees have not learned to think globally. Says one Pan Am insider: "When a National person was asked for a reservation to Melbourne, he assumed it was Melbourne, Fla...
Renters sometimes put their units to inventive uses. A New Mexico manager discovered a user who regularly drove his girlfriend and his Cadillac into his roomy cubicle. The manager had to inform him that love in the warehouse was not allowed. In Altamonte Springs, Fla., police arrested a tenant who was using a mini-warehouse cubicle to grow 364 potted marijuana plants under fluorescent lighting. Perhaps the sneakiest case of all was a Los Angeles woman who made daily trips to her cubicle with new pieces of furniture. When asked by the manager what her purpose was, she explained that...
...their lives: shopkeepers with a bit too much unsold inventory on hand, salesmen with bulging, bulky files, families relocating into or out of the area and waiting for their new home or apartment to become vacant. One particularly grateful renter is former Homeowner Mae Rose Owens of Winter Park, Fla. She was able to save her household possessions by hastily storing them in a local miniwarehouse after a giant sinkhole began to swallow up her house and a big chunk of the neighborhood...
DIED. Daniel Daniel, 91, for more than half a century a leading writer on baseball and boxing and a founder and former editor of Ring magazine; after surgery for a stomach tumor; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Daniel covered baseball from 1909, the heyday of Ty Cobb, until the 1974 World Series, which he reported for the Sporting News, mostly for the now defunct New York World-Telegram and New York World-Telegram...