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Ellen Weiss can hardly see. David Schmitt can barely hear. Together, the elderly woman, who suffers from diabetes, congestive heart failure and arthritis, and the widower, who is recovering from a hip fracture, slowly shift through the halls of Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J. Typical victims of aging's cruelest blows? Not really. Weiss is actually a resident in family practice, age 30, and Schmitt a medical student, 26. They have been assigned roles, ages and infirmities as an innovative part of their medical training...
Even for those who win big, there's always the chance that lightning might just strike twice, as it did five times even before Don Wittman's incredible luck. And then there is George Magalio, 49, owner of an office-supply company in Flemington, N.J. Using his own system to pick winning numbers, he has struck gold in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for a total of $4 million. He has invested his winnings conservatively. And he's still playing...
...Frank Pinto, a U.S. Navy physician stationed at the submarine base in Groton, Conn., shopping in Flemington is a kind of pre-emptive strike against overpaying. He strides through the Van Heusen outlet, selecting sport shirts from neat stacks. "I planned to stop off here on a trip to Philadelphia," he says, "just to avoid the ungodly markups on clothing at the regular stores...
...everyone shops all the time in Flemington. The town's park benches are crowded with bargain widowers -- husbands who drowse in the sunshine while their wives continue the hunt. Fathers of young children often elect to take a ride on the historic Black River and Western Railroad, an aging three-car train that rambles some eleven miles through the woodlands to Ringoes, N.J., and back five times...
Improbably, Flemington has managed to absorb the shopping influx without undue strain or violence to its historic setting. On Main Street, for instance, stands the 1828 Greek-revival Hunterdon County courthouse, famous as the site of the sensational 1935 trial of Bruno Hauptmann, who was convicted of kidnaping and killing aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby. Just a block away is the Clothing Mansion, a three-story emporium of discounted men's wear in a carefully preserved old home...