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...state's $1.2 billion citrus industry is resistant to every remedy except fire. But even after spending $24 million and burning nearly 9 million trees, officials are finding the canker in new locations. In the past month alone it has turned up in three nurseries and an orange grove...
...violence-ridden south-central ghetto. "It was a relatively quiet night," says Goodgame. "Only five gunshot wounds, four serious stab wounds and four head injuries from clubbings." In the line of duty, Atlanta Reporter Frank Washington once found himself threatened by a "steelyeyed" street tough in Miami's Coconut Grove area. "If he saw me hanging around much longer, he would kill me. It was that simple, and that...
Once they are all settled, the movie loses steam. It is reduced to a series of Jack's clashes with the lobster restaurant's very special customer who, at least in his own mind, is somewhat of a big deal around Citrus Grove, Florida...
...defendants are going to pay for it harshly," said Illinois Judge Ronald J.P. Banks last week as he sentenced three officials of the now defunct Film Recovery Systems Inc. of Elk Grove Village, Ill., to 25-year prison terms. Banks had earlier ruled that the managers were guilty of murdering Employee Stefan Golab, who died in 1983 after inhaling poisonous cyanide fumes inside the plant. During the trial, F.R.S. workers testified that their employers had not warned them of cyanide's dangers. In fact, they said, at management's behest some skull-andcrossbones warning symbols had been scraped off cyanide...
...Dewar, 88, Continental Baking Co. vice president who retired in 1972 and who in 1930 invented the celebrated Hostess Twinkie, a sponge cake filled with sweet cream, beloved of schoolchildren and bewailed by nutritionists, that with 40 billion sold has become the nation's favorite snack cake; in Downers Grove, Ill. To critics, Dewar said, "I fed them to my four kids. Twinkies never hurt them...