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...short (1¾-in.) barrel the model RG 14 revolver that Hinckley used cannot be sold legally in the Miami area. The one that Hinckley bought, serial number L731332, was shipped by Southern Gun distributors of nearby Opa-Locka, Fla., directly to Rocky's Pawn Shop on Elm Street in Dallas. This cluttered emporium, only a quarter of a mile from the site where President John Kennedy was shot 17 years ago, has a sticker on the door that reads GUNS DON'T CAUSE CRIME ANY MORE THAN FLIES CAUSE GARBAGE. In the window a red, green, blue...
...financial exigency," 25 out of 35 full-time faculty (including several tenured teachers) were to be fired. The administration asked librarians and an admissions recruiter to double as classroom teachers during the emergency. Treat Hall, the administration building, would be closed to cut heating bills. A third of the elm-shaded 50-acre campus in Denver's choice Park Hill neighborhood was being put up for sale...
Stephen Schlager Elm Grove...
...green country town, which will never be burnt, and always be wholesome" to the prepackaged sterility of some of today's contrived "new towns." Factory towns, farm towns, railroad towns, cow towns, mining towns, all march through his book. "New England towns with white churches and elm-arched streets ... fugitive transient towns with their tacked-on names and mayfly lives." The aspirations and disappointments of little American towns have come and gone in rich diversity, too, but every town, as Lingeman says, has represented one more lof the many "permutations the dream z of community has undergone...
...planning Disneyland, which opened in 1955, Walt Disney solved the problem in a novel way. He lined his idealized Main Street, U.S.A., through which all visitors must pass before getting to Tomorrowland or Frontierland, with Chinese elms. They are not quite look-alikes of their American cousins, but do grow in balmy Southern California. More important, they resist Dutch elm disease...