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Rolling libraries got going in 1905 with a horse-drawn wagon operating out of Hagerstown, Md. The motorized variety was widely in use before World War I and grew in popularity until well after World War II. Of late, branch libraries, mail order services and other ways of circulating books have been making bookmobiles seem a bit quaint, but there are at least 1,500 in operation in the 50 states. The Indiana department of public instruction still keeps two bookmobiles on the road each summer. This summer they distributed some 40,000 books, embracing 800 titles, at a cost...
Bethesda, Md...
...December 1975, Angela and David Boyter went to Haiti for a seven-day vacation and a divorce. A year later, eleven months into their second marriage, the Boyters did the same thing in the Dominican Republic. Since then, the Ellicott City, Md., couple have remarried and been divorced a third time. They figure that their revolving-door matrimony has saved them $15,000. The reason: federal laws that favor single taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service challenged the couple, arguing that the first two divorces were "sham transactions" and that they would not be recognized by Maryland. Last week...
...floor," they boo. When Carter consumer affair representative Esther Peterson ends her defense of the Georgia presidency by yelling "Four more years," there are enough jeers to positively melt the heart of Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.). And so, by the time Rep. Barbara McClusky (D-Md.) introduces Kennedy, they are ready. The orchestra plays "Macnamara's Band," the blue-and-white placards begin to wave, and the "magnificent example of grace, courage and valor" strides out on stage...
...slender man dressed in a gray postal uniform rang the doorbell of an elegant $250,000 house in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., one morning last week. He brought two special delivery packages for the occupant, Ali Akbar Tabatabai, 49. As the balding Iranian bent over to examine them, the "mailman" killed him with three shots from a 9-mm pistol concealed in a sheaf of envelopes...