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Gradually, Abilene changed to a slow-paced community catering mostly to retired farmers. Until the Eisenhower Center was built, "Abilene wasn't going anywhere," as a local motel owner put it. Today the sign at the city limits reads: WELCOME TO ABILENE, MIDWEST TOURIST CAPITAL, EISENHOWER CENTER TWO MILES...
...craft's prime target will be snipers in high places. In fact, Sheriff Mel Bailey, 50, first considered building a remotely piloted vehicle (RPV as he dubs it) after a lone rifleman terrorized New Orleans last year from the roof of a motel. As Bailey explains it: "Criminals often seek a high vantage point. We have ground equipment to return fire, but so often you have to stay distant, which only extends the problem over a long period of time." With the RPV, Bailey plans to strike fast: drop a smoke bomb via remote control, blind the sniper, then...
Over the half of the area, according to the plan, would be used for light industrial, technical, and research and development type firms, with a smaller portion intended for retail stores and a hotel or motel...
Builders broke ground this week for a Holiday Inn on Mount Auburn St. though negotiations to fund completion of the project are still pending, Harold J. Kanavos, developer of the proposed motel, said yesterday...
Kanavos said there is "definitely a relationship between the Holiday Inn and the Kennedy Library," although plans for the motel began four years before plans for the library...