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...stranger twists in this year's Winter Olympics it was LaVigne--not Gault--who has been showered with media attention, although perhaps without the beneficial effects for the Bobsled Federation. LaVigne's story has been front-page fare for the New York Times Sports section, among others...
...critics, this amounts to little more than a thinly veiled effort by affluent and largely white neighborhoods to exclude strangers while boosting the value of their homes. Observes San Diego's Sanford Goodkin: "A stranger is defined as anyone who bought a house the day after I did." He and others claim that the effect of growth controls will be most severe on the poor, cutting jobs and investment in their neighborhoods. But developers have never been eager to build in poorer areas, and many of those neighborhoods are equally concerned about congestion. In Los Angeles, Proposition U passed...
...equal importance, Pistone exposed the degree to which Government crime- busting efforts have weakened the Mafia, says Ronald Goldstock, director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. The Mob, which once ran thorough security checks on any stranger, simply lacked the "discipline and internal controls" to unmask the agent, he says...
...working in very tight spaces here, but they never make him claustrophobic. His camera is like a calm, courtly stranger at this revel, quietly accepting its physical restraints, determined to make the best of its intimacy with a marvelous ensemble of actors. They, in turn, are charmingly unpretentious as they reveal the humanity beneath their unpromising surfaces...
...Tudor-Gothic mansion was a fine example of careful stonework and superbly finished interiors, set down on a luxuriant plot of waterfront lawn on Jamaica Bay. It began as a residence for Henry Heinschiemer, an eccentric New York banker whose security system included a sign that read, GENTLE STRANGER TURN BACK. When the age of grand living had passed it by, the big home became a hospital for joint diseases, then a private school for retarded children and later a rabbinical school. Now it is a bag lady of a building. A fire has destroyed much of the roof; plants...