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...front porch of Lorna Shuster's guesthouse, where a few survivors of the old Atlantic City gather, the only thing exchanged is conversation. The name of the place is actually the Montpelier Guesthouse-it is at 7 South Montpelier Avenue-but a passerby would never know. Someone stole the sign a few weeks ago, and Shuster, whose detached, philosophical nature hides the fact that she is suffering from hypertension, does not appear in a hurry to replace it. Why should she be? Her regulars, all Jewish and all from Philadelphia, come back year after year, from the beginning...
...loss of the rolling chairs is not the only thing the people on the porch dislike about the new Atlantic City. Lorna Shuster, for example, is annoyed by the big increase in costs. "We were told our taxes would go down," she says. "Instead everything has gone up about four times. They lied to us." "The old people have been thrown out," adds Esther Halperin. "And they expected to die here...
...dogs live up to expectations, say Biologists Ray and Lorna Coppinger, who have raised hundreds of animals at Hampshire College's New England Farm Center in Amherst, Mass. A couple of dogs have wandered off into the hills and disappeared. Others have been killed by traffic, electric wires or misplaced M-44s. Some dogs are naturally boisterous and need special handling; a few have turned out to be sheep killers. To work properly, guarding dogs must be introduced to sheep as pups so that by maturity they are totally at ease with the flock-and vice versa. When...
...students know that they're not going to get a good grade the second semester if they don't get into the advanced section. Lorna A. Brundage '83, a student in Chem 20, said yesterday, adding that students who don not do well the first semester "are penalized because they're certain to get a lower grade in the regular section...
...Marshall fulfilled a lifelong interest in anthropology by taking his family on an expedition to study the Bushman of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, an adventure later recounted in The Harmless People (1959) by his daughter, Elizabeth, and The !Kung of Nyae Nyae (1976) by his wife Lorna...