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...giant bird, one a towering fountain of water, one a large video screen showing the face of George Washington and a message that "the measurement of the American dream is The Dollar." The other two are -- well, it is hard to say what exactly. Nick Patsaouras, head of the design committee, says that all will be "radically changed" before a final winner is chosen. . Some Los Angeles citizens devoutly hope so. Says Susan Kirvin-Cox, spokeswoman for the city's Visitors and Convention Bureau: "We need to get away from that wacky, weird image that everybody...
...barely missed the unveiling of his own monument. After a family tiff prompted him to sell the Louisville Courier-Journal and other media properties in 1986, the former publisher put $2.6 million from the sale into financing what is supposed to be the world's tallest (400 ft.) floating fountain. Its 41 jets will spout 15,800 gal. of Ohio River water every minute in a 20-minute computer-controlled cycle of designs, culminating in the fleur- de-lis, Louisville's official symbol. Tens of thousands gathered Friday night to watch the fountain's spectacular debut. Bingham was not among...
...coat-and-tie boys" who surround Bush. He is gargantuan in his appetites -- for food, amusement, combat and attention. In a fight with two leather-jacket types in a Houston hotel lobby in 1984, he broke one man's wrist and tossed the other man into the lobby fountain. Just last week, annoyed that no one had repaired a bowed table in Bush campaign offices, Ailes walked into a roomful of aides, grabbed the conference table and flipped it over. He nurtures his pugnacious image as carefully. "If people know you'll go to any lengths for your client, they...
Depending on whom you ask, the Rev. Herman Fountain's Bethel Home for Children is either successful therapy for troubled youths or a Dickensian nightmare. Last week a bizarre standoff between Fountain and state officials climaxed when police raided his Lucedale, Miss., Baptist school and church, rounding up 72 children between the ages of ten and 17. Earlier, a state judge had ruled that the children had been subjected to "physical abuse, medical neglect and detention amounting to imprisonment," and ordered that the state department of public welfare take them into emergency custody...
...Fountain, a former drug addict who founded the boarding school for wayward youths in 1978, refused to comply and allegedly encouraged his young charges to flee rather than be taken into custody. Despite the charges of mistreatment, many of the children's parents defended the school, which stresses religious instruction along with strict discipline. "When a child is on drugs," said one parent, "you need the help of religion...