Word: groves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hiring contractors is sometimes the only way that outlying areas of small towns can obtain the services they need. Residents of districts just beyond the city limits of Elk Grove, Ill., used to rely upon the fire departments of neighboring Mount Prospect and Des Plaines. But in 1979 those two towns decided that their fire fighters could no longer cover that area, known as the Elk Grove Fire District. Rather than build a department from scratch, district officials decided to hire a company called American Emergency Services, based 15 miles away in Wheaton, to put out fires and provide paramedics...
...beginning there was Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. Now the biggest combination of show-biz and biblical spectacle may be The Glory of Christmas--A Living Nativity, which has been staged at the Rev. Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., every Christmas season since 1981. This year's three-times-nightly, 75-minute re-enactment of the birth of Jesus boasts Singer Debby Boone, 29, as the Virgin Mary, plus a cast of more than 400 that includes ten flying angels, four white horses, a donkey and three camels. Boone, who is herself expecting this...
...Rodeo Drive, populates this sumptuous bargain of a book. San Joaquin kit foxes, yellow- bellied marmots, California bighorn sheep and mountain lions patrol the high mountains and hidden valleys; bald eagles and hawks, herons and condors find their lonesome rookeries. Some of Tupper Ansel Blake's photographs--a grove of bishop pines at Point Reyes, the promontories of Santa Cruz Island fading into the mist--evoke Japanese prints. All eloquently plead the book's cause: save the wilderness...
Meanwhile, the bad guys are fleecing the government by making shoddy products and overcharging on defense contracts. Grove Industries, led by Walter Grove and two lackeys, bribes bumbling generals and bumps off kids named Skippy...
Half a mile away is the Grove, a neighborhood surrounding Lake Holbrook. The lake is murky; people who live around it say that sometimes it looks orange. Joanne O'Donnell has lived in the Grove since 1964. All five of the O'Donnell children spent time at the Pastures, she says, and four have had endocrine problems. One daughter had a pituitary tumor; another daughter's spleen was removed last year. Mark, her eldest son, at 27 came down with "some virulent, crazy pneumonia that nobody could figure out." Then a large tumor was found on his pancreas...