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...kind of approval came hard. Whispered exchanges over backyard fences about the Doc's "live-in" girlfriend, a lab technician at the center, are just now dying down. Feather Falls is a company town, wholly owned by the Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Its 800 citizens live in white-trimmed, barn-red houses, paying an average $125-a-month rent. They did not know what to make of an antiwar activist like Rose who dressed in red flannel shirts, green silk dotted ties and baggy, unpressed jeans. His walrus mustache, gold-rimmed glasses and long brown hair brought to mind...
...quest began at precisely one second past midnight on Jan. 1, 1979, when he spotted a barn owl in Florida City, Fla. His mission, admittedly, was in part a wild goose chase, but it was a snowy plover chase and a glossy ibis chase as well. For James Vardaman, 58, had decided that he would spend 1979-from New Year's Day to New Year's Eve-trying to become the first person to sight 700 different species of birds in North America within one year. "Hot damn!" he remembers saying when he thought of the idea. "That...
...casual visitor, it looks like a typical boarding school for the overprivileged-300 acres in Stockbridge, Mass., a mansion, dorms, art studios, a gym, music rehearsal rooms and a barn, and 150 teen-agers so bright-faced and chipper that local residents say they can identify them by the "DeSisto glow...
Like almost everyone else who came into contact with Alex, his nephew found the power of his legend and his charm irresistible. How could it be otherwise with a man who had begun his career directing short films in a disused trolley barn in Budapest and ended up occupying the penthouse floor of Claridge's in London, where Churchill and Beaverbrook lingered over brandy and where a supply of fresh toothbrushes, still in their cellophane wrappers, was kept to accommodate women who decided to spend the night. Some of them, it was said, were seduced...
...worked 110 hours in the last week making vessels for the papal Mass: a chalice, a plate for the Communion bread, a pitcher, a bowl for the washing of hands. Local carpenters crafted an altar and papal chair out of thick oaken beams salvaged from a 100-year-old barn...