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Harvard's Mary Paul beat out a slow roller to the right side advanced to second in some ensuing confusion. She scored when the shortshop misplayed Baldauf's grounder...
...small courtroom in Orange County, Calif., last week, Attorney Allen Millstone pointed sadly to his wheelchair-bound client. In 1983 James Higgins had been a 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...
Today, Disney says, fewer than 100 lawsuits are filed each year, and plaintiffs' attorneys concede that all are uphill battles. In the Higgins case, Disney contends the youth had been drinking and caused the roller-coaster accident himself. In Orlando, the company argues that the moat in which the boy drowned was safeguarded by at least two fences...
...early 1980s, Pickens began searching for riches on Wall Street, where one of the great roller-coaster rides in history was turning oil stocks into a bargain. Shares of the major petroleum producers had climbed sharply after 1979, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries nearly tripled the cost of oil. But then the price began dropping after 1982 as a world glut of oil developed. U.S. energy reserves, meanwhile, were dwindling. Pickens realized that oil company stocks were undervalued, and that it was both easier and smarter to get new oil reserves by taking over a company than...
...Mayor Edward Koch gave him a crystal replica of the city's symbol, the apple, in honor of the $50 million that the Gulf fight had brought to New York City in the form of legal fees and payments for other services. Midway through the evening a chimpanzee on roller skates suddenly appeared. Garbed in Gulf filling-station livery, the ape wheeled into the room, sat down next to Pickens and began licking his face. Quipped the startled oilman in reference to Gulf's chairman: "James Lee was never this friendly...