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...walls, no windows boarded up. Inside, expensive audiovisual equipment sits in unlocked offices, while near by, students pursue a discussion of a Chekhov story and Richard Wright's Native Son. It is Providence-St. Mel High School, the West Side's remaining Roman Catholic secondary school and a fortress of civility ?and hope?for black teenagers...
...Longed-For Tempests, which chronicles Chateaubriand's first 25 years, begins with his birth during a violent storm at St.-Malo, a granite fortress of a town on the coast of Brittany. At Combourg, the family's gloomy, turreted castle, Chateaubriand grew into moody adolescence, given to sentimental verse and melancholy posturing. But Paris beckoned. There he witnessed, along with "fashionable spectators and lovely ladies who drove up in their carriages," the storming of the Bastille on July...
Along with all the diversions, Camp David also provides?at the bottom of an elevator shaft sunk 100 ft. into the mountain?a fortress where the President could repair in time of war. Even in peaceful times, security is tight. Rifle-bearing Marines keep watch behind a double row of barbed-wire-topped fences...
DIED. Wellwood E. Beall, 71, pioneer airplane designer and engineer; following surgery; in Santa Monica, Calif. During his 30 years with Boeing (1934 to 1964), Beall oversaw the development of the 314 Boeing Clipper, the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress of World War II; the B-47 and B-52 jet bombers; and the Boeing 707, the first commercial jet aircraft. In 1964 he became a corporate vice president with Douglas Aircraft...
...morning at Morris High School, a gothic fortress rising above the ruins of New York City's scarred South Bronx. All but the main entrance is sealed; in front of it is a security guard, ready to turn back anybody who tries to enter without proper identification. Inside, five more guards equipped with walkie-talkies patrol the halls and cafeteria in the 60% Hispanic, 39% black school. Most classroom doors are locked after classes begin, and study halls, once a favorite spot for fights, have been shut down. The dingy lockers that formerly lined the corridors have been removed...