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...Minn., this week, will pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
...entire bureaucracy and a web of government relocation sites situated around the capital in what became known as the Federal Arc. Each year the government conducted elaborate exercises in which thousands of officials relocated in ( mock nuclear attacks. Eisenhower and his Cabinet convened at Raven Rock, the 265,000-sq.-ft. "Underground Pentagon" near Gettysburg, Pa., code-named "Site R," or at Mount Weather, a bunker near Berryville, Va., code-named "High Point" (see "Doomsday Hideaway," TIME, Dec. 9, 1991). Airborne command posts and reinforced communications ships stood by to receive the Commander in Chief and his advisers. Congress...
Buried within a mountain of superhard greenstone, the 200,000-sq.-ft. Mount Weather has been a primary relocation site for the Cabinet and cadres of % federal employees -- and was long a primary haven for the President. J. Leo Bourassa, Gallagher's predecessor, recalls the day Eisenhower summoned him to the Oval Office and spoke to him of Mount Weather. "I expect your people to save our government," Eisenhower told him. "You know damn well I'll be there as soon as I can." In May 1960, Eisenhower and his Cabinet convened at Mount Weather as part of a training...
...which museum is exhibiting the show? Well, here comes another surprise. Memphis, like most cities outside New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, lacks a large museum space. So Splendors is installed in the downtown Memphis Cook Convention Center. The 26,000-sq.-ft. facility within the center was built for boat shows, union conventions and the like, but the exhibition's designers have created a temporary museum space befitting the 16th century Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. The King's home at Graceland can't touch...
...does not cover all Crips and Bloods factions. Nor does it affect the city's more violent Latino and Asian gangs. One of the widest and most organized peace efforts involves about 12,000 black gang members in four Bloods and three Crips "sets," or factions, within a 3.5-sq.-mi. area of South Central. The Monday after the riots, their leaders came to Norman seeking his help in keeping their peace. There were unity meetings between members of at least 100 gang sets in housing projects and other locations. Norman hopes the group that approached him will become...