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...town of Lorain--county seat of Lorain--lies about six-and-a-half miles north of Highway 90, past Elyria, where the students from Oberlin College got their 3-per-cent beer when the Women's Christian Temperance Union threw them out of town, and then past tiny Clearview...
...David, 10, had been hit by a truck. Realizing that he would "never be anything but a shell," she told doctors to let him die. Sometimes, as in the Quinlan case, the parents find the doctor unwilling, either for ethical reasons or fear of a malpractice suit. In Elyria, Ohio, for example, Randal Carmen, 17, lapsed into a coma after a football injury and doctors refused to give up on him until he died two weeks later. Some patients are luckier. "I have seen people in comas who have survived after many days on machines," says Tennessee Plastic Surgeon McCarthy...
...MAITLAND Elyria, Ohio...
...cheap) concrete-block structures. Last month the Rev. Lyle Schaller, director of the Regional Church Planning Office in northeastern Ohio (which represents twelve Protestant denominations), reported in The Lutheran magazine on a survey of new church construction near Cleveland. In the suburban triangle formed by Cleveland, Lorain and Elyria, no fewer than eleven of the 15 new congregations that have been organized since 1955 are Bible-preaching fundamentalist groups...
...recent graduate: "We loved to remind each other that our average IQ approached the threshold of genius." Most Oberlin people go on to graduate school, do especially well in the sciences. Equalitarian Oberlin bans automobiles, and although almost every student pedals a bicycle, the hot spots of Cleveland-and Elyria-are out of effective range. But high spirits burst out, sometimes beerily. Night climbing expeditions have been known to ascend the lumpish fagades of classroom buildings, and a recent visitor saw two happy collegians reeling along on a motorcycle, one sitting backwards and whanging a guitar...