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Panek dialed Delta Airlines and asked officials if one of their big birds could wing the little fellow south. The airline, which advertises itself as "ready when you are," readied a small shipping box for the robin. The boxed bird caught a flight from Portland to Fort Myers, Fla., riding in the cockpit with the pilot. Once in Florida, the robin was greeted by members of the Fort Myers Nature Center, who made sure that it was healthy enough to be set free. "We've done this before," shrugs Delta Spokesman Bill Berry. "Once it was a pelican with...
Bilingualism: No to Spanish. In 1973, in recognition of its large Hispanic population, Bade County, Fla., officially became bilingual, with Spanish as the second language. Voters this week passed a law that would make it illegal to spend county funds for the use of any language other than English, effectively nullifying the 1973 resolution. Emmy Schaffer, a survivor of a World War II German concentration camp, spearheaded the initiative by organizing a band of housewives with the slogan: "In America, English first." The movement gained momentum among whites after the summer's Miami riots and huge influx of Cuban...
Franklin, who was being hunted by the FBI, was spotted last month selling a pint of blood for $7 in a blood bank in birmingham. Last week he was arrested in Lakeland, Fla. Authorities want to question him about a yearlong series of shootings-in Salt Lake City; Johnstown, PA,; Cincinnati; Indianapolis; Oklahoma and Fort Wayne, Ind.-which claimed the lives of eight black men and two white women and included the wounding of National Urban League President Vernon Jordan in May. All the attacks occured without warning, involved a high powered rifle, and, in four of the assaults...
DIED. Virgil Fox, 68, flamboyant organist whose technical mastery and theatrical flair attracted millions to the instrument; of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Fla. The son of an Illinois harmonica player and theater owner, Fox was organist at Manhattan's Riverside Church for 19 years and was invited to play virtually all the world's great church organs, but he was best known for his more than 30 recordings and his freewheeling concert appearances, at which he favored iridescent jack ets, rhinestone-studded shoes and a full-length, crimson-lined cape. After he began wooing a new generation...
Ukrainian-born Feodor Fedorenko, 73, has spent most of his 31 years in the U.S. as a Connecticut foundry worker. He has paid taxes and minded his own business, and in 1970 he became a citizen. Then, in 1978, he found himself in a courtroom in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., listening to a string of witnesses swear that during World War II he had whipped and shot Jews at the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. The former guard was not on trial for war crimes, but for concealing his Treblinka experience when applying for citizenship. If the Government won, he probably...