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...first glimpse of Russellville disappointed us. Electric signs from a few chain restaurants glowed dully on the side of an otherwise dark hill. In lieu of streetlights, a few hundred watts of "PIZZA HUT" lit the roadway...
...Germans. After years of waiting and praying, Germany is one nation again, a people united. The Berlin Wall, once the ugliest scar on a wounded country, has been knocked down, its pieces carted off to a huge depot for resale as art or to be crushed for use as roadway ballast. The border fences marking the Iron Curtain that for so long divided Europe have been dismantled...
After an hour at the government building, the sit-in participants and their supporters moved to the intersection of Court St. and Cambridge St., where they spread out across the roadway...
When rescuers finally fought their way through the fog and the wreckage, they found 83 damaged cars and trucks strung along a half-mile stretch of the Interstate. Thirteen people were killed and 50 hurt in the ill-fated roadway's third -- and worst -- major pileup since 1978. Frightened local motorists and truckers could only wonder: How many next time...
Judging from all outward appearances, Follen St. could be any residential roadway in any suburban neighborhood in the U.S. But area residents say that they have had one constant reminder this year that Follen St. is not just anywhere, that it is right next-door to the nation's oldest institution of higher education...