Word: groves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given the history, what astonishes one is this tenderness. An odd, sweet quiet comes upon the field and grove in the September afternoon. The people, after their rally, rest almost dreamily on the threadbare grass. George Wallace has spoken. He sits in his wheelchair on the small flatbed metal stage in the park at Noccalula Falls near Gadsden. The people come to him. They fall into a long, orderly line to file past and take his hand and have him sign their Wallace posters...
...Edmund R Donoghue, deputy assistant medical examiner of Cook County, said two brothers in Arlington Heights and a 12-year-old girl in neighboring Flk Grove Village died within 11 hours of each other Wednesday form cardio-pulmonary collapse after taking Extra Strength Tylenol capsules. He said an investigation "definitely confirmed the presence of cyanide" in the over the counter pain reliever...
This is not Denes' first tilt with environmental art. In 1979 at Artpark, a cultural complex in Lewiston, N.Y., she sowed a rice field, wrapped chains around a grove of trees, and near by buried a time capsule containing 40 existential questions. Samples: "Which do you think will prove ultimately more important to mankind-science or love?" "Do you believe mankind will become extinct one day?" In similar performances at a private site in 1968 and at Artpark in 1977, she buried samples of her haiku and other writings...
Could this be the year when the gun-control tide finally began to turn? First peaceful Morton Grove, Ill, enacted a ban on handguns, then Chicago passed a handgun freeze prohibiting new registrations. Last week San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein signed an ordinance making it illegal to carry or even keep a handgun at home. Handgun owners (the military and armored-vehicle drivers, among others, are exempted) have until the end of October to either get their weapons out of the city or store them permanently at a licensed shooting range. The maximum sentence: six months in jail...
...Peter G. Peterson: "[West German Chancellor] Helmut Schmidt considers George one of the best friends he has, and has enormous respect for him. It's hard for me to imagine any one who would be more acceptable to the Europeans." The two men have vacationed together at Bohemian Grove, a private California men's retreat to which Shultz belongs...