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...onshore oil deposits -- right on the grounds of her cherished Windsor Castle. The would-be driller, Canuk Exploration Ltd. director Desmond Oswald, promised yesterday that the exploratory drilling will be a half-mile distant from the queen's ancestral home and won't mar her view of the family parkland. He didn't precisely address what would happen if the hoped-for 100 million barrels of oil starts gushing out. "I don't believe you can get 100 million barrels of oil just through a small pipeline," Windsor Mayor Dennis Outwin fretted. "It's bound to lead to Windsor Great...
...Francisco-based Trust for Public Land documents a drop in crime in neighborhoods that provide adequate parks and recreation activities for youths. Unfortunately, the study notes, the best parks tend to be clumped in the wealthiest neighborhoods. In Chicago the impressive lakefront has 41 acres of parkland for every 1,000 residents; on the less affluent West Side there is only half an acre per 1,000 people. In Congress, Minnesota Democrat Bruce Vento is trying to rectify such inequities by co-sponsoring legislation to provide more money for parks and programs. "Recreation," he points out, "is less expensive than...
Everyone present tried to get her away from a gory scene, but there was nothing spacy, nothing at a 50-yard remove, about her defiant resolve. When one of several doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas urged her to leave, she said, "Do you think seeing the coffin can upset me, doctor? I've seen my husband die, shot in my arms. His blood is all over me. How can I see anything worse than I've seen...
Often described as a mannequin, remote and elegant, she seemed determined to underscore the bloody reality of death by gunshot. At Parkland, where the President was taken by ambulance, every time the Secret Service urged her out, she walked right back in, circling the trauma room. Dr. Marion Jenkins, now 76, remembers that in the minutes after the shooting, "I noticed that she was carrying one hand cupped over the other hand. She nudged me with her left elbow and then with her right hand handed me a good-sized chunk of the President's brain. She didn...
...than any words, as he took the oath of office; gripping Robert Kennedy's hand and then her children's; receiving the flag that had covered J.F.K.'s coffin. But what of the woman beyond the camera's range? There are no pictures of her heartbreak and bravery at Parkland. Yet that was somehow...