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...trouble began Tuesday afternoon when officers visited the house at 2239 Shannon in response to a phone tip about a shoplifter. They failed to find the suspect. But later, they were called back to the brick and frame dwelling to answer a complaint from one of the cult members about the police's handling of the investigation. As two officers entered the house, the occupants jumped them, and shots were exchanged. One officer put out a call for help, which was answered by two more policemen. When all four officers were inside the house, a short gun battle took...
Warnecke, based in San Francisco, had won national acclaim for his ability to design buildings that do not flaunt their modernity but get along well with older neighbors, notably two office buildings opposite the White House whose brick facades effectively echo the residential accents of surrounding Lafayette Square...
...thought of how awful it'd be to live in a house with a mattress and a folding chair," she explains, a creature of instinct rather than bureaucratic calculation. Laura is appealingly vulnerable, evoking the image of a Dorothy who has just given up looking for the yellow brick road. She seems to have been dragged from '50s Kansas via the '60s Village only to be deposited by the inscrutable hand of Beattle in Salt Lake City of the '70s. Toto is replaced by "Ox," the ex-football player husband...
Police showed up at a brick duplex at 5306 Nevada Avenue, in the affluent Chevy Chase suburb of Washington. Inside were 151 Ibs. of marijuana, worth about $500,000, stashed in 16 boxes. No one was home, but someone planning a drug sale had been stripping the marijuana leaves and burning the relatively valueless stalks in the fireplace. Later, three men and two women, all in their 20s, who had been living in the rented duplex for about a month, surrendered. Their cache, police said, was as first-rate as the $150,000 and $200,000 homes in the neighborhood...
...Otherwise the public, unlike the audiences at old-fashioned hangings and beheadings, would have had to rely on its imagination. Granted, the imagination was boosted by sketches in newspapers showing exactly how the execution room looked, with Brooks stretched out on a hospital gurney rolled up beside a brick wall with a square hole and tubes looping through. But this was hardly the same as being there. For those who craved particulars, the appetite was merely whetted...