Mickey Mouse

Robert Thomas Fischer never knew he was missing.But lucky for him, an employee at the Towson Sheraton did. And with a little help from Mickey Mouse, hotel driver Bud Schneider FTC spotted Mr. Fischer yesterday morning, helping police end a hectic search for the 31-year-old Navy seaman reported missing Wednesday in the Loch Raven Reservoir area where two men were slain last month."

By the time she turned 4, Melanie was a Disney veteran. She'd cried when Mickey Mouse had come too close, gotten a nightmare from the ticking crocodile on the Peter Pan ride and was traumatized by the huge fireworks display. But not this trip.This trip, Melanie couldn't get enough of the place. She raced around all day wearing her personalized black mouse ears, singing the Mickey Mouse Club song until her brother and sister begged her to stop, hugging every character she saw, insisting her happiness depended on riding every attraction again (even the Peter Pan ride!

Piney Run Park once again will offer pontoon rides on the lake during the summer.Registration is required. Call 795-3274 for details, cancellation policies and to register.Pontoon programs for children and an adult include:* "Pirate Pontoon Adventure" in which children can dress as their favorite pirates for a ride at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. June 22 and at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. July 28. Fees are $1.50 for adults and $1 for children and senior citizens.* "Peter Pan Pontoon With Captain Hook to Never Never Land" (dress up as your favorite character)

MIAMI -- At the start of the season, when Deion Sanders spurned a better offer from New Orleans to sign with the San Francisco 49ers, Saints owner Tom Benson thundered, "What kind of a Mickey Mouse organization do we have out there?"The NFL now has the answer.It has one that's going to play in the Super Bowl tomorrow.One of the reasons the 49ers were able to do it is the creative way they were able to handle the salary cap -- in part using their winning reputation to lure players like Sanders for below their market value.

Good news and Mickey Mouse, what a wonderful combination. Bell Atlantic has made a Mickey Mouse telephone available for students' good news at Stevens Forest Elementary School, Oakland Mills Village.Parents were asked to list names and local telephone numbers their children are allowed to call. Then, when the occasion arises to share news with someone, the student calls on the Mickey phone. Bell, the school's business partner, provided the phone so students could talk about a successful test, a completed project or happy event.

In Anaheim, Calif., heads are turning and George Reiger is loving it, sucking in the attention like oxygen, like a drug, like his flesh was an epidermal sponge.This is what he lives for, what he craves: to strut through ZTC Disneyland and feel the bug-eyed recognition of people gaping at his full-body collection of Disney tattoos.From his shoulders to his shins, Mr. Reiger is Disney on parade.Peter Pan flies across his right shoulder. Beauty and the Beast grace his left shoulder. Characters from "The Jungle Book" and "Song of the South" spill down his right arm.He has all 101 Dalmatians on his back and the genie from !

Haymarket, Va. -- IT BEGAN 133 years ago with Abraham Lincoln taunting a general fearful his Union troops were unready to fight."You are green, it is true," said Lincoln. "But they are green also. You are all green alike."And they were. On a warm July day in these foothills 35 miles south of Washington, 67,000 raw young Americans fought the First Battle of Bull Run. So began the bloody Iliad that shaped America.At day's end, congressmen and their ladies were caught in the pell-mell Union retreat.

His CIA controllers have ruled that Aldrich Ames will get no more victims, especially not them.If disaster could happen on as calm a body of water as the Baltic, treat the Chesapeake with respect.Virginians could not stop Grant but, by God, they were not going to be rolled over by Mickey Mouse.Polls show that Bill Brock is as popular in Maryland as in Tennessee.

Mickey Mouse just got his tail kicked.Now, you ask, who in the wide, wide world of sports would want to do that?Who do you think?It was an unholy alliance of fat cats, tree-huggers, pointy-headed intellectuals and other assorted un-American types. That's who. And it just fries my bacon.You know the story. Walt Disney, not simply a company but an institution so American that apple pie seems subversive in comparison, wanted to bring to northern Virginia its own special, it's-a-big-country-after-all version of Disney History Land.

Wake up, sleepy heads! Time to shed those Mickey Mouse sheets, that Mickey Mouse nightshirt, and grab the Mickey Mouse soap. Everybody neat and pretty? Then on with the show!Put on the $100 Mickey Mouse tea kettle and check the newspaper. Looks like Disney has its eye on the CBS network. Hmm, the house the mouse built plans to join three Baby Bells to deliver movies-on-demand and home shopping to 50 million customers. And clever Disney will pull "The Lion King" until late November, just in time to snag another pride of acolytes during the holiday movie rush.