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...them leave his offices satisfied. Computer Designer Jerry Kiliszweski, for example, faced a $3,000 judgment for a faulty set of cabinets he had built, plus a host of unexpected medical expenses; creditors had garnisheed a quarter of his wages and attached his savings account, car and aged pickup truck. Within 24 hours after Kiliszweski saw Slate, the garnishment and attachments were ended. Recalls his wife Pat: "When I said I don't understand the judicial system very well, Mr. Slate just said, 'Well, honey, everyone ain't been to Sunday school...
...Plymouth, Mich., and, once aloft, pulled a knife and ordered Pilot Richard Jackson to fly to the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson. The pilot set down within the walls and took aboard Inmate Dale Otto Remling, 46, who was serving six to ten years for larceny. The pickup took five seconds, only half the time Bronson planned, and Remling and his unidentified rescuer had the pilot land four miles north of the prison and escaped by car. In life as in art, not all escapes are successful. At week's end, police arrested Remling's alleged...
...creditors. But the difference is one of degree, not of kind; other states and cities are also trying to cope with inflated costs, recession-shrunk revenues and mounting debt. Like New York, they are laying off employees, cutting services (including, in some cases, police and fire protection, and garbage pickup), borrowing heavily against the future and raising taxes-all actions that could weaken the national economy's recovery from recession...
...poodle, being given its daily turn about the deck. On evacuation day the emergency plan fell apart, leaving stranded hundreds of Vietnamese employees of the U.S. embassy, USAID and USIS. Some were never called, and buses were too crowded or failed to make their way to designated pickup points. In one shocking instance, a senior member of the embassy's Mission Council fled his post for the embassy hours before he should have, leaving his agency's evacuation program a shambles...
...famous vegetarian for another by trading Walton "for Euell Gibbons and a six-pack of carrot juice." That just might be a good deal. Walton, who missed 47 of the Blazers' 82 games this season because of a foot injury, tore ligaments in his left ankle during a pickup basketball game last week and was reassigned to a cast for the offseason...