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...mannered assault on a President in the august East Room under the daunting gaze of George and Martha Washington. Second, Gary Richard Arnold, the congressional candidate from Santa Cruz, Calif, (slogan: LOOKS LIKE LENIN, TALKS LIKE LINCOLN), who provoked Reagan, was the perfect person to spark the Irish flint, suspected but rarely revealed publicly, beneath then smiling, benign Reagan surface...
...sudden plunge back into the ice age sent statisticians to the record books. According to the National Weather Service, temperatures for April plummeted to new lows in seven U.S. cities, including 6°F in Flint, Mich., and 26° in Augusta, Ga., where torrential rains interrupted the first round of the Masters golf tournament. In Virginia, turbulent winds fanned a fire that destroyed the outdoor performing-arts center at Wolf Trap Farm National Park. In Detroit, a 6-in. snowfall brought the winter's total to 73 in.-the most for the motor city in more than...
...scratch." Within weeks, Allie's manic energy transforms a rank, overgrown clearing into a neat, well-ordered community. As he keeps improving his creation he boasts, "The Iron Age comes ... A month ago, it was the Stone Age ... digging vegetables with wooden shovels and clobbering rats with flint axes. We're moving right along. It'll be 1832 in a few days! By the way, people, I'm planning to skip the 20th century altogether...
...Dort Elementary School in Flint, Mich., 25 Follow Through kindergarten children sit quietly in neat rows working on assignments. At the front of the room the teacher is drilling four children on reading. Imperious, she snaps her fingers to signal for the answer, which the children chorus together. The children seem secure and interested, but they know they will not be asked for an individual response until after the chorus. When it is time to read, they follow a bright red arrow across the page from left to right to remind them that reading is done from left to right...
Vivienne L. Richardson Flint, Mich...