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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vigorous young man of 18 when he went to Disneyland and took a ride on Space Mountain. As the roller coaster rounded a bend, the youth was suddenly thrown from the rocket car. Through Disney's negligence, argued Millstone, Higgins is a paraplegic. Twenty-four hundred miles away in Florida, in another Orange County courtroom, an equally sad story was unfolding. While Marietta and Harry Goode listened closely, Lawyer Philip Freidin recounted a tragic 1977 family outing to Disney World during which the couple's four-year-old son slipped away and drowned in the moat in front of Cinderella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: No Mickey Mousing Around | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Disney refuses to disclose the annual number of injuries at the California and Florida parks, which draw more than 30 million visitors a year, but there is little doubt that thousands occur. The majority never result in suits at all, thanks to quick soothing from Disney. Says Mike McCray, Disneyland's lawyer since 1955: "If people get wet, we've got clothes dryers, and we dry them off. Before they know it, they're back out there having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: No Mickey Mousing Around | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Disney's final trump card is that both of its parks are located in communities that are more than happy to have them and the jobs they generate. Pressing a case against the company on its home ground, contends Florida Attorney James Sisserson, is "like suing God in the Vatican." Lawyers find they have to tread a very fine line, says Hovland, between admitting "we all love Disney and noting that even the most perfect person makes a mistake once in awhile." But jurors by and large remain unconvinced about Disney's fallibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: No Mickey Mousing Around | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...Reagan Administration instifies these cutsaby suggesting that college students do not make substantial sacrifices to obtain their educations. But for most student, receiving financial aid, the cuts will not mean giving up stereos and Florida vacations, as Secretary or Education, William Bennett has suggested. The $4000 cap would affect precisely those students for whom such luxuries are only idle dreams, falling disproportionately upon poor and minority students. For many families, already pushed to the limits of their financial means, higher education would become an impossibility. To suggest otherwise indicates a willful lack of contact with reality...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Threat to Equality | 3/7/1985 | See Source »

...early February a small jet en route from California to Florida stopped for refueling at the Kleberg County Airport, near Kingsville, Texas. Acting on a tip, U.S. Customs officials searched the aircraft and found nearly $6 million in $100 and $20 bills in the suitcases of one of the passengers. They arrested the owner of the luggage, Francisco Guirola Beeche, 34, a wealthy Salvadoran businessman, and his two companions. Guirola is a friend of Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing Salvadoran politician and foe of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The three men were later indicted in Corpus Christi, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The Six-Million-Dollar Man | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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