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...Mainers of Letourneau's Used Auto Parts are not the type to be seen at L.L. Bean. They live in a town that is inappropriately named Miracle City, a collection of raw shacks and trailers hard by an automobile junkyard whose owner, Lucien Letourneau, is a down-East version of Big Daddy. Chute skillfully spot-welds an assemblage of impressive vignettes and character sketches, but she has difficulty hooking up the narrative drive...
...five second-year MPP's said they organized the campaign because they had heard K-School administrators were thinking about instituting a loan forgiveness program. "We just wanted to make the issue a little more public, and put a little pressure on," said one organizer Martin J. Letourneau, a second year grad student...
...Stevens Institute required its science students to buy their own PCs, and in 1983 Clarkson and Dallas Baptist extended the idea to include all incoming freshmen. Now computers are required or strongly recommended at more than a dozen schools, including Carnegie-Mellon, Colby, Dartmouth, Drew, Franklin and Marshall, Lehigh, LeTourneau and Sweet Briar. But none of these schools has integrated the machines into its curriculum as thoroughly as Drexel has. And none has been as dramatically transformed by computers as the Philadelphia school...
Muskie moves and works in a measured cadence-slow, methodical, studied. Says Gene Letourneau, a friend who sometimes hunts birds with him in Maine: "When Ed goes out in the woods, he is just as cautious as when he makes a big political decision. He wants to know where he's going. He always has the compass...
Died. Robert G. LeTourneau, 80, giant of the earth-moving industry, who for 33 years pledged 90% of his personal earnings to a myriad of Christian causes; of a stroke; in Longview, Texas. In an industry noted for the size and power of its machines, none matched the Brobdingnagian creations of LeTourneau, which constituted 70% of the heavy earth-moving equipment used in World War II. LeTourneau credited his success to a "partnership with God" made in 1932 when he resolved to pledge all his future profits and much of his energy to religion. "The more time I spent...