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...Sunday spin in the country, one of the scenic delights used to be the handsomely weather-beaten, quaintly dilapidated barns that lined rural roads. The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New England to the Midwest, the old barns are being dismantled by barn buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color...
Dissident Democrats and other angry opponents of the war, of course, have been talking of marching on the barn-like International Amphitheater much as they marched on the Pentagon last October. The prospect already has police mapping contingency plans...
...Inmates. A 22-year-old college student spent nearly four weeks there earlier this year after being convicted of buying $150 worth of merchandise on someone else's credit card. He recalls that on his arrival, the "barn boss" of his tier, a Negro con named "Briefcase," immediately "told me that because I was white and weak, I would need protection." Briefcase offered to provide it in return for the boy's shirt and coat. The student reluctantly ponied up, but that night Briefcase and a friend came to his cell, and attacked him homosexually. "I begged them...
...first snowflakes were flecking Edwin Walton's windows when his barn roof flashed red in the night. Explosions that followed the first great fireball were still reverberating as the Waltons reached the wreck of Trans World Airlines Flight 128 close to their ranch house in Hebron, Ky. The four-jet Convair 880 bound from Los Angeles with 82 persons aboard was approaching the Greater Cincinnati Airport when it clipped saplings on the bluffs above the Ohio River, caromed over a ridge, sliced through tall timber, and then ploughed into an apple orchard half a mile away...
...school is situated near Watertown Square in a foolish old white house with a large squat steeple and a barn behind. Its 18 rooms held 20 students last year, the school's first year, when the school had only grades nine and ten. By adding an eleventh grade this year the school has doubled its enrollment...