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...Hell's Angels and the Puerto Rican liberation group F.A.L.N. Frank Battisti, chief judge of the federal district court in Cleveland, has received his death threats from members of the public. The first came in 1974 after he dismissed charges against eight Ohio National Guardsmen involved in the Kent State killings. He won more enemies when he ordered desegregation of local schools and when he directed the nearly all-white suburb of Parma to build low-and moderate-income housing. For the past five years, Battisti has had around-the-clock protection from two U.S. marshals...
...have to think when he goes to the closet. And he laughs his stacatto laugh, as he often does. But he is really very serious about "the beginning of something new." Since closing his guitar case on the streets in September, Meyreles has formed a band with sidekick saxman Kent White, including a guitar, bass and drums. He wants to record an album very soon, and do what he calls "music/theater--I wrote a oneman theater show for myself. I'm a late bloomer. I'm 27. And I've only been performing three years. I haven't even tapped into...
...Stephen C. Kent, 38, the father of two, opened a hardware and building-supply store in Atkins, Ark., 2½ years ago with a $50,000 loan, at 10%, from the Small Business Administration. When sales turned down this year, Kent could not stretch his finances any further. By last week he was literally out on the street. Said he glumly the day before an auctioneer gaveled off pieces of his business to the highest bidder: "It was almost impossible to make my payments; I just couldn't see any future...
...Clark Kent may be a champion of the underdog, but this is one David vs. Goliath story that will never appear in the Daily Planet. Back in 1979, student editors at Chicago's Richard J. Daley College decided to change their campus newspaper's name from the ominous sounding The Obstacle to the more light-hearted Daley Planet, after Superman's favorite newspaper. Funny? Certainly not to DC Comics, a division of Warner Communications Inc., which owns the Superman trademark...
Sticking to her story, Williston was well ahead of everyone else with the report that Sadat had died. About ten minutes later, as an increasing number of sources around the world began to relay the same word, it was Tom Brokaw's turn to press Correspondent Art Kent on whether he had heard the news "from an official spokesman, or are we all beginning to repeat each other?" Over at ABC, Frank Reynolds explained: "We are obliged to give you information that may turn out to be inaccurate." At moments, the frustration and uncertainty swamped their syntax. Pointing...