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...were smarter, Elkhart, Ind. (pop. 43,627), would have been our first stop on the Summer of '98 Secret Capitals Tour. Why? Because we could have bought a motor home the size of Graceland and then cruised in prefab splendor, instead of staring moose-eyed at flight-delayed lights in airports across the land. We could have taken a band along too--Elkhart is also the band-instrument capital of the world--and turned this thing into a national polka fest...
...ROEMER (D) District 3 (Northern Tier--South Bend; Elkhart...
...lose our kids to cyberporn, free speech won't matter. NANCY JEAN KELLY Elkhart, Indiana...
Susan Orleans is a free-lance journalist who works weekends, as evidenced by her lively nonfiction, Saturday Night (Knopf; 258 pages; $19.95). Ranging around the U.S., she watches people spend and squander their leisure hours. In Elkhart, Ind., folks drive slowly up and down Main Street. In Los Angeles airheads make the club scene. In Baltimore an octogenarian goes to her weekly polka dance; she has not missed one in nearly 30 years. A Manhattan socialite lends credence to the belief that the wrong people have money: "I'm always out in the country riding my horse and so forth...
...court's ruling involved a battle between Connecticut's Dynamics Corp. of America (1986 sales: $139 million), a maker of appliances and machinery, and CTS, a manufacturer of electronic components (1986 revenues: $246 million) based in Elkhart, Ind. In March 1986, Dynamics tendered an offer for 1 million CTS shares, which would have given it a controlling interest in the firm. CTS then invoked a state law governing so-called control shares, defined as the number of shares an investor must purchase to gain control of a target company. Under the Indiana statute, the voting power of such shares must...