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...small town as an ideal is familiar. The very notion, as though invented by Norman Rockwell, has always carried with it images of low-key living, easy friendships, neighborly neighbors, front-porch sociability, back-fence congeniality, downtown camaraderie. Small town-the phrase evokes an intimate sense of community, leafy serenity, free of the sinister strangers who menace the cold, grimy canyons of the city. U.S. literature has abounded with ugly portraits of small towns like Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, but the wistful ideal has survived. Americans have always been readier to be pierced by the human loveliness...
...operandi. Said Sergeant Arthur Nielsen: "This is only the second armed animal robbery case I've seen in 21 years. We once caught a guy who was using a big German shepherd to scare money out of his victims." The snake, which police found sleeping under a nearby porch, was turned over to the Lincoln Park Zoo. The snake was thus freed, after a fashion; only its master must still face the scales of justice...
...knock it out with his fist. Every product had to pass his severe scrutiny and demanding standards of taste. One foreman told the story of a large window produced to the order of a rich client; it was intended to represent the view from the client's front porch. The customer declared himself delighted, but added, "I want a duck, right there in the middle of the picture." Tiffany indignantly said that a duck would not fit the composition. Said the client: "I paid for that window, and I want a duck." Tiffany glared at him, turned and smashed...
...battlefield: a cop pulls a protester from the treehouse he had climbed into; a trooper stands guard duty in front of an above-the-ground swimming pool; two men sit in lawn chairs sipping Michelob until the tear gas gets too thick and they retreat to their glassed-in-porch. After the first rush, there seems little hope of gaining the site, but scattered charges at the fence continue. As fast as the grappling hooks are attached, troopers with bolt cutters cut them off the fence, often sending those on the other end reeling backwards, losers in a one-sided...
...feet into the air. Some 30 people were injured, and the blaze that followed burned for more than ten hours before exhausted firemen were able to bring it under control. "I thought it was the end of the world," said Ralph Spinelli of Staten Island, who stood on his porch and watched 55-gal. drums fly into the air and burst like bombs. "I think it's a miracle that no one was killed...