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While investigators were trying to determine what industrial chemicals had fed the blaze, Mayor Lipari announced that the cause of the catastrophe had been traced to two twelve-year-old neighborhood boys, who had slipped through a fence and ignited a barrel apparently filled with volatile naphthalene. Said the mayor: "They stated they were playing with matches...
...restoration is sensitive and, for the most part, scrupulous. Always there are quibbles: Why have the hoteliers covered the tile walls of a main hallway with cheesy green felt? In the 65-ft.-high barrel-vaulted Grand Hall, however, the strict preservationists were indulged. The gilt is real gold leaf. Artisans worked 3,000 hours fixing up the large pictorial stained-glass window. The marble for the floors is from the same French quarry used by the station's builders. Indeed, to the modern eye, accustomed to cleaner colors and lines, the period hues and ornamental density of this main...
MOST OF ALL, though, the end of the strike means that we will not have to search long and far to find alternatives to baseball. Though I will certainly miss all the evenings I could have spent sitting around the cracker barrel talking about baseball instead of going to see the games, I am glad that I will not have to rely on a Rambo Film Festival at the Copley Place for my summertime entertainment...
...movie and needed our family Jeep for production value, I said, "Mom, could you put on this tin helmet and this army surplus uniform and drive the Jeep through my shot?" And she'd drop everything, climb into the Jeep, race out behind Camelback Mountain and helter-skelter barrel through the shot, hitting the potholes, her blond hair sticking out from under the pith helmet. And I would have my "production value." My $7 film suddenly looked like a $24 film...
...West Coast has been hardest hit, particularly the Los Angeles area. Says Detective John Clark: "We're keeping a lid on it, but that's about all." There are 422 gangs reported in the county, and they "are putting communities over the barrel of a gun," says Tom Garrison, an aide in the youth gang agency of Los Angeles. This "is a war zone." The Mexican Mafia and Nuestra Familia, both hatched in prison, have long been a problem. But now Monterey Park, a once placid community east of the city, is torn by Chinese thugs. Orange County, home...