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Skelm's poverty is reflected in its flat, treeless landscape so characteristic of Lancashire. The air is heavy with dust and the northern wind is harsh. The town's only landmark is the beacon on one of the few hills at the city limits. Visitors are always taken to the beacon to see the fine farmlands to the south and west, the motorway to the east, and the decaying city of Wigan to the north. There is no exit or entrance to the motorway at Skelmersdale...
...modernization necessary to escape it, small ranchers are giving up. Not too long ago, a herd of 150 cattle could be grazed economically; today 400 represent the lowest economical unit. The trend is to younger, leaner cattle, raised on bigger, better spreads. The biggest operation of all, and a beacon for the industry, belongs to Robert O. Anderson, 50, who wears one big hat as chairman and chief executive of the Atlantic Richfield Co., doffs that for a cattleman's Stetson when he turns to the business he enjoys most. With nine ranches that occupy a million acres...
Kenmore Square was rocked by riot that night, with traffic backed two miles up Brookline Avenue. Remember how swarms of college boys commandeered cars to parties on Beacon Hill? Remember the motorists doing somersaults on their hoods...
...Oiens could have been rescued in a matter of hours had their plane been equipped with a crash-locator beacon ($100-$300), which shines a light visible up to ten miles and sends a radio distress signal 60 miles. Unknown to them, their two-month drama was lived out only eight miles from busy U.S. Route...
Sociological Theories. Her disguise as Lone Ranger pitted against the Beacon Hill and Cambridge Establishment is reminiscent of James Michael Curley's durable appeal to Bostonians of another generation. And the notion that Kennedy men cannot lose in cod country is illusory: Mayor John Collins, who is retiring after two terms, originally beat a Kennedy endorsee. Both Lawyer Hicks, 48, and Lawyer White, 37, are Irish Catholics, but Mrs. Hicks is the daughter of Judge William Day, whose memorial is a boulevard in the Irish quarter of South Boston, and her address allows her to warble Southie...