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Despite the good news last week, the legal battles are far from over for Felt and Miller. They plan to appeal and, more important, they must prepare for a string of civil suits brought by those whose homes were broken into...
...goateed "colonel" who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food chain, which now has 6,000 outlets in 48 countries; of pneumonia; in Louisville. Sanders ran a popular restaurant in rural Corbin, Ky., for 27 years before setting out in 1956 in his trademark white suits and black string ties to sell franchised eateries serving chicken parts laced with a secret blend of herbs and spices and pressure-cooked for 12 min. In 1964 he sold the business for $2 million to Nashville Businessmen Jack Massey and John Y. Brown Jr., now Kentucky's Democratic Governor; seven years later...
...painted hangar in Burbank where it all began. But to everyone in military aviation, it is still the "Skunk Works," after the foul-smelling still where one of Al Capp's Li'I Abner characters brewed Kickapoo Joy Juice. A fitting nickname. Over the years an incredible string of secret weaponry-including the new breed of nearly "invisible" (to radar) planes-has emerged from the Skunk Works...
Following an easy exhibition win over the Portuguese National Team, the squad embarked on a quick three-game victory string, including a last minute triumph on the road over UMass...
...Meyer and Stephen Friedman, two producers of the hit Broadway musical Annie. According to federal investigators, the four built a tax-shelter empire selling interests not only in American coal but also in distribution rights to European films and a Namibian diamond mine. They funneled investment money through a string of paper corporations with headquarters in the U.S., and such offshore havens as the Cayman Islands and Curaçao. Although the current charges concern only the coal caper, which involved write-offs totaling $150 million, sources close to the case estimate that when all the allegedly bogus tax deductions...