Word: sidewalkers
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...Mayor for six years, he said he had been mayor for too long. "They complain about everything." He is paid $15 every time the town council meets. His Norwegian father was born in a sod shanty in 1883. His proudest bureaucratic achievement is a $6,000, 500-ft. concrete sidewalk that runs alongside Main Street, which is dirt. "That boy is mine too," said the mayor, pointing to another son, David, a trencherman about the size of a post office...
About here Walter Barbknecht, seeing that a visitor's head was spinning, offered a tour of town. "Orville's real proud of this sidewalk," the tour began, then abruptly turned conspiratorially candid. "The restaurant inspector is giving us a bad time. They want us to make the doors to the restrooms bigger, for the handicapped. And shields over the lights. Tiddly things. They don't want fluorescent bulbs to break over the food. We did our own plumbing and wiring, just volunteers. We have a good plumber, but he doesn't have a license, so they're hacking on that...
...state has launched its own ad rebuttal. One 30-second protax television spot opens with a scene of a crowded sidewalk, while a voice-over intones that "growth is choking Florida. Too many people. Not enough water, roads, schools." The ad concludes that "special interests will have to pay their fair share...
...stops literally on the sidewalk between the Science Center and Memorial Hall. When the buses pull out of this "depot," they must cross two lanes of traffic, and the resulting traffic snarl is far worse than it ever was at the original stop. Who ever said evolution was not progress...
...John Vessey as a presidential envoy to negotiate about missing Americans. The Vietnamese were receptive. But the State Department, Perot says, then jumped the timetable agreed upon for announcing Vessey's pending appointment. The Administration, he charged, was "taking a piece of fine china and smashing it on the sidewalk." Perot added that he would "do everything I can to put the pieces back together" although he would not say what he had in mind. But as he has abundantly proved, once his Eagle Scout sense of propriety has been aroused, he is not a man to give...