This year Disneyland-the California original-will be thirty years old, and the Magic Kingdom plans to celebrate the event all year long. Daily parades, nonstop special events and plenty of celebrity entertainment are just the start of the giant birthday party. The highlight of the festivities, however, is the stupendous twelve-month give away that's just getting under way. To commemorate its ...

In a small courtroom in Orange County, Calif., last week, Attorney Allen Millstone pointed sadly to his wheelchair-bound client. In 1983 James Higgins had been a vigorous young man of 18 when he went to Disneyland and took a ride on Space Mountain. As the roller coaster rounded a bend, the youth was suddenly thrown from the rocket car. Through Disney's negligence, argued Millstone, Higgins is a paraplegic. ...

March 1985:--Christina Schaal 17 from Sunland, breaks both legs and fractures an arm after she falls from her wheelchair onto a moving platform at the Haunted Mansion ride. June 24, 1988 :--Christina Schaal's case has reached a $35,000 settlement with Disneyland. Disneyland agreed to settle the personal injury lawsuit as the jury was deliberating Christina Schaal's case before Superior Court ...

June 2, 1985:-- Nine people suffer bruises when the computer that electronically switches the Big Thunder Mountain track malfunctions and sends an occupied train crashing into a stopped train at about 3 to 5 mph. The victims are bumped and ...