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...vacant buildings a month to brick burglars, St. Louis perhaps 50 a year. "We don't use terms like brick stealing," says Philip Mumford, owner of Chicago-based Colonial Brick Co. Inc., which pays about $80 for 1,000 used bricks. "If a rabbit dies and a buzzard eats the carcass, that's scavenging. In the city, when a building dies, there's a process of claiming that carcass...
Child abuse, both sides agree, makes the issues particularly agonizing, because the person seeking religious counsel is often continuing the offense. "You have a helpless third person who may suffer while counseling goes on," says Lynn Buzzard of the Christian Legal Society. "I got a call involving a pastor who had been told by a husband and wife that the husband had sexually abused their child. The pastor was torn. He was concerned about the child, but he also said, 'My God, this is their first cry for help ever.' " The Rev. Charles Eastman, head of Miami...
Some 200 athletes did march like conquering legions before the public, which turned out 2 million strong for the traditional buzzard of ticker tape in New York City's "confetti canyon," the milelong hero's avenue to City Hall from the Battery where fireboats squirted red, white and blue sprays. "We really fought for America," said Pistol Shooter Ruby Fox, and Brooklyn Boxer Mark Breland added, "My town has really turned out the troops." These days, ticker tape is scarce in Lower Manhattan, though a bit of the stuff was donated by Wall Street and some was imported...
...everyone agrees with this stringently secularist approach. "If you take the symbol away from the celebration, it's almost a sterile, noncelebrative event," says Lynn Buzzard, executive director of the Christian Legal Society, adding that court attacks on Christmas scenes are "a trivialization of the Constitution." Henry Kinch, the current mayor of Pawtucket, agrees. "The A.C.L.U. wants to wring every bit of religion out of our daily life," he says. He will appeal the anti-crèche decision to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Pratt & Whitney jet engines. Since then, he has expanded by buying several firms, including Otis Elevator in 1976 and Carrier, the air-conditioner manufacturer, in 1979. Over the years, Gray's opponents have reportedly called the slow-speaking but fast-moving Georgian a robber baron, a buzzard, Dracula, Jack the Ripper and King Kong. Few of his takeover thrusts have been thwarted, however...