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...morning, long before the clouds obscured the sunrise, and the recently patched asphalt on Highway 90 east is, as the signs promise, "slippery when wet." Nothing more than a small white-on-green sign that the heavy winds bent out of shape announces your arrival in the county of Lorain...
...town of Lorain--county seat of Lorain--lies about six-and-a-half miles north of Highway 90, past Elyria, where the students from Oberlin College got their 3-per-cent beer when the Women's Christian Temperance Union threw them out of town, and then past tiny Clearview...
...Lorain, Ohio...
...mother, "a nice Catholic girl" and now a legal secretary, has lived in the same house for 58 years. Mary, who is 29, sometimes feels, like Isabel, that the most interesting part of her life is her past. Her father's family were the only Jews in Lorain, Ohio. They managed to send their son to Harvard, but he dropped out and knocked around Europe for a few years. Says Mary: "He once started a girlie magazine called Hot Dog. When I was a teen-ager I found one and tore it up. Now I'd give anything...
When the shooting stopped, four students were dead. William K. Schroeder, 19, of Lorain, Ohio, had been second in his ROTC class. Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, of Youngstown, Ohio, had been walking to a speech therapy class with a friend. Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, of Plainview, N.Y., had written on one of his notebooks: Rocky for President in '72. Allison Krause, 19, of Pittsburgh, had come the closest of the four to threatening a Guardsman: a few days before, she'd put a flower in his rifle and told him that flowers were better than bullets...