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Richard Hensarling Jr., 25, was jailed in August for the robberies of four central Florida banks. He later admitted that, from the reactions of his fellow inmates, he had learned his lesson about using women’s dresses as robbery disguises.
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As a guest lecturer (on the secrets of his Wall Street success) at Purdue University in February, Arthur J. Curry told students that they must be willing to risk everything to win big and that, for example, he needed a half million dollars right then for an imminent deal. A month later, Curry was charged with kidnapping a woman in Bloomington, Indiana, whose husband owns a large medical-instruments firm, to collect a $1.7 million ransom.
In a July Texas League baseball game between Midland and Odessa, the announcer, Barry Sykes, was ejected by the umpire after playing a Linda Ronstadt recording of “When Will I Be Loved?” (containing the lyric “I’ve been cheated”) over the public-address system in response to one of the umpire’s calls.
A Moscow newspaper reported in May that some vegetation in the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has grown to gigantic sizes and sprouted buds in seasons when it should be dormant.
