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Police Commissioner Hans Holmer told reporters that two bullets recovered at the scene of the late Friday night shooting--a downtown sidewalk--were fashioned from an unusual combination of metals and may have been hand-made...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--A man shot Prime Minister Olof Palme down on a snowy sidewalk yesterday night as he walked with his wife in downtown Stockholm. He was pronounced dead at a hospital soon afterward...
...centerpiece of its centennial winter carnival, St. Paul has a neogothic ice palace twelve stories tall. And with its Mardi Gras celebrations as a happy pretext, downtown Galveston has seven exotic ceremonial arches designed by a remarkable group of architects. The ice palace and the arches were both finished last week...
Both cities are caught up in revivalist sprees. Galveston's arches have been erected in the rehabilitated old quarter of downtown. Even the local celebration of Fat Tuesday is a recent revival of tradition, and commemorative arches went up once before...
Hanford, Calif., is a farm community, the kind of place where people know each other by name and trust each other by nature. "You can go downtown without a dime in your pocket, do your shopping and come back to pay later," says City Councilman J. Brent Madill. "It's not faceless like L.A." In any town, the brutal killing of a teenage girl leaves a deep mark, but in Hanford the wound remains, 24 years after the crime. And now the U.S. Supreme Court has rubbed the wound open again all these years later...