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Hungry visitors usually patronize Freeport's version of fastfood fare: McDonald's. There are no familiar arches in this two-century-old Yankee village, however; the town wouldn't tolerate America's most famous golden trademarks. Instead, a century old, black and white New England clapboard has been converted into the only McDonald's in the country with polished oak tables and primative American art. The building is colonial, but the food is McDonald's standard fare...
...before that period expired, Harvard abandoned its demolition plan. Earlier this month, University officials agreed to retain the turreted, wood-clapboard building and reduce the number of apartments from 50 to 40, as critics had demanded...
...site. In August the EPA finished a new chain link fence, topped with three strands of barbed wire and hung with warning signs. (Some days, however, its gate has stood wide open.) The source of all the trouble is a ratty compound of cinder blocks and sheet metal, pink clapboard and silver tanks. One large white building is marked only by a tiny skull-and-crossbones label on the door. A few yards outside the site one afternoon in September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits used a huge tread-mounted pump...
Caught in the middle of the leadership struggles are the congregations, who worship in settings ranging from clapboard country chapels in the Appalachians to the sprawling four-block complex of Criswell's 25,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas. A great number of these ordinary members at the S.B.C. meeting seemed to want to put an end to the internal struggle. Remarked Randy Newsome of Corbin, Va.: "I'm tired of hearing all this name calling. It's time to get on with our business." Al Miller of Chattanooga agreed that 99% of Southern Baptists "just want...
Like many independent oilmen, Pickens was born within sight of working wells. He grew up in Holdenville, Okla. (pop. 6,300), a cow town surrounded by pastures, where cattle graze alongside active oil pumps. An only child, Pickens was raised on a street of white clapboard houses and green lawns. The family is fond of tracing its ancestry back to the same part of England that produced a distant kinsman, Daniel Boone...