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Winters are hard but bracing: "Our best time of year," according to a Duluth mine worker. "They build character," says Frank Barth, a transplanted Chicagoan. "They are a great blessing to us. You don't get the weak-kneed beachboys here. They can take it for one winter, then leave." Dr. Ronald J. Glasser, a Minneapolis kidney specialist and author (365 Days, Ward 402) who grew up in Chicago, argues that Minnesota winters account for a lot of the social solidity and character of the state. Says he: "You have to be strong and productive to survive here...
Richard Kieninger is a softspoken, bespectacled Chicagoan who believes that he has a holy task-preparing for civilization's destruction. He and his followers are currently building a Noah's Ark community on the Illinois plains, where they hope to survive a series of disasters that they believe lie in store for most of the rest of mankind...
...Chicago traffic light last week, a motorist glanced at the car alongside and gasped to a friend: "Hey, the rear end of that Rolls is a Volkswagen!" Well, almost. What the Chicagoan saw -and what more and more drivers and pedestrians across the U.S. are encountering-is a VW equipped with a fiberglass hood that bears a startling resemblance to the elegant Rolls-Royce front. It is the latest-and most eye-catching -manifestation of the doll-up-the-Bug fad that has produced a dizzying variety of conversions over the years since the Beetles first appeared...
...strangely enough, to those of average height and taller -even towering basketball players like 7-ft. 1-in. Wilt Chamberlain wear the shoes because they are both fashionable and seem to provide the buildup that comes from looking down at the world. "When I take off my heels," says Chicagoan Kenneth Jarrett, a near six-footer, "I feel like half...
...Chicagoan Carl Haas, manager of a Lola team. "It's a social event, just like Le Mans. It's a bit of a mecca. It's got its own sort of flavor." In fact it sometimes seems that the race is a secondary event, little more than a 100-decibel background for the real thing: drinking, talking and gawking, or in the long stretches of the night, cooking steaks over flickering grills and cracking yet another sixpack...