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...years tourists have trekked to the red-brick building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy. But the structure was closed to the public until 1981, when it was declared a Texas historic site, and visitors still are not allowed near Oswald's sixth-floor sniper perch...
...computer buffs at ease with the graphic virtuosity of Max Headroom, the FAA demonstration might seem primitive. But to air-traffic professionals gathered in the agency's sixth-floor "war room," it represented a technological breakthrough. Prior to last week, FAA radar data showing the location of planes flying over the U.S. could be shown only piecemeal on computer screens at one or more of the aviation agency's 20 regional control centers. Now, all that information has been merged and displayed on a single cathode-ray screen, giving the nation's air-traffic controllers an unprecedented view of overhead...
...cause of the fire is believed to be a cigarette left burning on a couch by William M. Greto '87-'88 of Wilmington, Del., who was staying as a guest in the sixth-floor suite...
According to police reports, the blaze broke out at about 9 a.m. on December 30 in the sixth-floor suite where Michael D. Cooperson '87 was sleeping...
Last week, as Cardiac Surgeon Jack Copeland was examining his patient in the sixth-floor intensive care unit at University Medical Center in Tucson, he noticed that Drummond was slurring his words. Soon afterward, the patient's right hand became immobile. Though Copeland hoped that Drummond's problems might be caused by abnormal levels of blood sugar or the aftereffects of sleeping medication, he feared the worst. "I had to admit it to myself," he says, "but I didn't want to." A neurologist confirmed that Drummond had suffered a mild stroke, most probably from tiny blood clots forming...