Blind but driven Bucks County public defender eyes first trial
At 29, Fiorvanti, blind since birth, works as assistant public defender in Bucks County. He notes rapidly with a Braille punch and plans for his first jury trial in August or September, after being encouraged by Bucks County Public Defender John McClure who says he is doing as well as any.
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Doylestown
UPD
John Fiorvanti
Fiorvanti
Bucks County
Norristown
John McClure
Olympic ticket window delays deepen Lake Placid plan
Lake Placid faces further postponements in Winter Olympics ticket sales as legal reviews and planning changes slow the program. The LPOOC battles with the APA and Transportation Department over parking lots, environmental impacts, and who pays for buses, threatening lower daily ticket allocations and shifts to group sales to reduce shuttle needs.
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Lake Placid
Robert Chanseian
Ohanseian
LPOOC
Petr Saurney
William Henessy
Adirondack Park Agency
APA
SPOCC
Transportation Department
Dying man begins to live after cancer diagnosis
Robert Fisher, 50, diagnosed with leukemia years earlier, planned suicide but changed course after learning of his illness. He biked 3,700 miles from California to Manhattan, fulfilling a childhood dream. He now aims to tour the country by motorcycle and try hang gliding, leaving behind his former corporate life for Sloan-Kettering work.
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New York
Robert Fisher
Manhattan
California
Fisher
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Penn Central Emerges as Diversified Corporate Power
Penn Central Corp reappears as a diversified holding company with stakes from pipelines and an oil refinery to amusement parks. Chairman Richard Dicker told about 350 shareholders the group aims to reestablish itself as a leading national corporation while continuing asset disposals and court proceedings over rail property claims.
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NEW York
Penn Central Corp
U.S
Richard Dicker
Penn Central
America
Midwest
California
Dicker
New Jersey
Swithout
Mon
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad
Northern Rail
Conrail
Nine Corporations Team Up To Promote Jewish Hiring
New York AP report says leaders of nine major national firms will advise affirmative action programs by Jewish groups to help Jews draw on contacts and pursue employment opportunities. AT&T president William Ellinghaus chairs the effort with executives from General Foods Nabisco and others. The AJC notes progress at AT&T and cites Standard and Poor's data showing few Jews in top posts across large firms.
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New York
American Jewish Committee
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
New York Telephone Files Rules for Customer Equipment
Tariff schedules filed with the Public Service Commission outline FCC rules for connecting customer provided registered terminal equipment and communications systems. The tariff pages show an effective date of July 1, 1979.
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NEW York Telephone Files
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
Public Service Commission
Farger
Arrannerante
PRAG
Fae Nnvee Imetentiatines
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Lesley Taylor
McClure
Kimli Day
Penn Central Transportation Co
Penn Central Com
William Ellinghaus
At&t
Charles Luce
Consolidated Edison
Francis J. Dunleavy
International Telephone & Telegraph Co
Ross Barzelay
General Foods
Henry A. Correa
ACF Industries
Val B. Diehl
Nabisco
Coy Ecklund
Equitable Life
J. Peter Grace
W.R. Grace and Co
John Hannon
Bankers Trust Co
Richard Maass
AJC
Maass
Standard and Poor
Ellinghaus
Israel Laster
NEW York. Telephone Company
Hickory Farms
al Artuera Am iiUin i Hie
Alan Liuiiia
Taouat
Paik Suffing Gener
Fayetteville Mall
Shoppintown Mall
Penn Can
Partners Market and Garden
Taft & Buckley Rds
North
Syracuse
Taft RD
Chuck
Chuck’si
Kote
Ortho
Onrue
Hevran Products
Onmo
Jumpers & Yews
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