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...excited about this little, adorable person that's all theirs," explains Barbara Emmerth of the New York City-based Citizens' Committee for Children, "but when the kid is in the terrible twos and the mother wants to go out on dates instead of taking care of the little monster, they change their minds...
...Roman poet Vergil in The Aeneid called rumor "a huge and terrible monster," and Wall Streeters last week would have agreed. The intense speculation about Pennzoil was part of the high-stakes legal battle the company has been waging with Texaco. In November a Houston jury ordered Texaco to pay Pennzoil $10.53 billion in damages for snatching Getty Oil away in a 1984 takeover battle. After a Houston judge upheld the jury's decision, Pennzoil and Texaco negotiators tried to forge an out-of-court settlement...
...flattop is 1,000 ft. long and weighs 65,000 tons, a monster by Soviet standards but considerably smaller than the U.S.S. Eisenhower (1,092 ft., 94,000 tons). Even so, the nuclear-powered vessel launched last month at the Nikolayev Shipyard on the Black Sea is a notable Soviet innovation: the country's first conventional aircraft carrier. The ship sports both an angled flight deck for fixed-wing aircraft, as on all U.S. carriers, and a ski-jump ramp, similar to those on British carriers, for launching short-takeoff aircraft. Existing Soviet carrier-type vessels, like...
...first victims of "the Monster of Florence," as the killer has become known, were an adulterous wife and her lover. On Aug. 21, 1968, they were shot to death as they lay in the front seat of a car parked in the countryside. In the back seat, the woman's six-year-old son slept undisturbed through the slaughter. The victim's husband was convicted of the murders and sent to prison. The man was innocent, as became clear six years later, when the Monster struck again, killing another couple in similar fashion. Ballistic tests showed that the murder...
There was another hiatus in the killings until 1981, when two couples were shot, again with the same Beretta that was used on the previous victims. Each year since then, the Monster of Florence has murdered one couple parked or camped within a 19-mile radius of Florence. The pattern was broken only once. In 1983 two young West German men lying in a camper were shot to death with the trademark bullets. Police believe that the killer mistook one of the youths, who had long blond hair, for a woman...