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...Robert Caldwell, a white defendant, was found guilty of raping and murdering his 12-year-old daughter and repeatedly stabbing his 10-year-old son. His sentence: life imprisonment. Jerry Walker, a black, was convicted of murdering the 22-year-old son of a white Army commander at nearby Fort Benning during a convenience-store robbery. His sentence: death. Caldwell's trial lasted five weeks. Walker's lasted 12 days. His jury deliberated for 97 minutes. Says Stephen Bright of the Atlanta-based Southern Prisoners' Defense Committee: "The death penalty was imposed not for the crime in Walker's case...
...still, blue morning air 150 ft. above the town of Fort Lupton, Colo., two men float in a hot-air balloon. One lashes a strong rubber cord to the midsection of the other, Fred Kaemerer, 23, a Denver engineer, who grimaces like a condemned man. When the countdown rings out -- "Three! Two! One!" -- Kaemerer swan-dives headfirst over the edge of the gondola. Although it lasts only seconds, the 60 m.p.h. plunge seems to take forever. But the real kick is yet to come. Just as Kaemerer hurtles to within a few feet of the earth and a terrifying impact...
...discovered cranes, which are perfectly legal but hard to find. Now in Colorado bungee jumping is readily accessible. Leapers of faith can visit Clear Creek County, where officials have approved a 140-ft.-high bungee-jumping tower on public land 30 miles west of Denver. A county over, in Fort Lupton, the Federal Aviation Administration is expected this week to certify Adrenaline Adventures to operate hot-air balloons modified for jumping -- the first such official seal of approval. Applications from other firms are certain to follow. Bungee lovers in Colorado and California have been operating uncertified balloons for more than...
...pedigree; it needn't even have been conceived as a novel. Four years ago, writer Michael Blake had sired a bunch of orphan scripts and one Hollywood credit: Stacy's Knights (1981), starring an unknown Kevin Costner. One day Blake pitched the star this idea: cavalryman goes to new fort, finds no one there. Wouldn't that make a good screenplay? "Don't write a screenplay," Costner said, pointing to a pile of scripts on his living-room floor. "It'll just end up in that stack. Write a book instead." A book called Dances with Wolves...
...husbands and wives assumed new housekeeping and child-rearing responsibilities, from monitoring the checkbook to tucking the children in at night. They will expect appreciation and may be reluctant to relinquish their new power. Says Kathleen Weihl, 27, whose husband Gary will soon return to Georgia's Fort Stewart: "The guys are going to see that wives can get along without them, and it's going to be a rude awakening for some of them." Weihl, who endured a 14-month separation in the late '80s when Gary was sent to South Korea, also knows the pitfalls of overidolizing...