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...swine-flu shots at an Allegheny County clinic on Pittsburgh's south side. Within six hours all three were dead, apparently of heart or lung problems. Soon similar reports were coming in from other parts of the country. Half a day after getting his flu shot, an elderly Floridian collapsed in a bowling alley and died. In Michigan, three aged people succumbed. Two similar deaths occurred in Tennessee. By midweek, 35 people-most of them elderly-had died after receiving swine-flu shots...
Died. The Rev. Toby Crosby, 122, evangelist minister of the Church of Our Lord of the Apostolic Faith; in Palatka, Fla. Born a slave, last year Crosby was recognized by a society of centenarians as the second oldest American-after 133-year-old fellow Floridian Charlie Smith...
...goose eggs on the Crimson at key spots. Denise Thal got friend at number one by the gifted Sue Graham, 6-0, 6-1. Sally Roberts at the second spot wiped the eggs off her face from a 6-0 defeat in the first set and her her opponent, Floridian Karen Feldman, 3-2 in the second set before narrowly losing the sixth game and three thereafter for a 3-6 defeat...
...those accused of felonies in state-court proceedings. Yet most defendants still did not benefit because 90% of them were tried for non-felony offenses in lower state and local courts-the so-called sausage factories of the criminal-justice system. Not until a 1972 decision involving a Floridian convicted without a lawyer of a misdemeanor did the court finally rule that "no person may be imprisoned for any offense . . . unless he was represented by counsel at his trial." Legal experts viewed Argersinger v. Hamlin as a landmark commanding wholesale change in criminal-justice procedures...
...Miami Criminal Court, a 20-year-old white Floridian had been found guilty of taking potshots at the home of an interracial couple, and faced 20 years behind bars for shooting into an occupied dwelling and carrying a concealed weapon. But Judge Alfonso Sepe had other ideas. No one had been hurt in the shooting, and the youth had no criminal record. So, after consulting the victims, Sepe decided on probation rather than prison-provided that the young man would attend Saturday morning breakfasts in a predominantly black church and also do volunteer work for a black charity...