Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More to the point, is the new Royalton really suitable for out-of-towners? The old Royalton sheltered Third World businessmen, flight crews from obscure airlines, unglamorous theater folk, out-of-town magazine writers, and several old ladies who looked like great aunts. The stains on the wallpaper got to be old friends. If you came in past 11:30 p.m., you found the door locked. Eventually, the night porter would answer the bell, not exactly in his bathrobe but looking the way your girlfriend's father used to when you brought her home late. If your step was wobbly...
Nyet this time. Donald Trump, who had taken to describing the quasi-summit as a Gorbachev visit to the Trumps with a stop at the U.N. squeezed in, was scratched from the schedule before the Soviet General Secretary ever came to town. But the developer's hopes revived when he heard that Gorbachev was in front of Trump Tower. He raced down from his 26th-floor office, but the man waiting on the street turned out to be a Gorby impersonator who had won a look-alike contest. Trump shook hands and posed for a picture anyway...
...without warning, shaken violently by a rumble from the earth. Concrete and stone snapped like brittle twigs, hospitals and schools crashed down on patients and children, and workers were entombed in factories. Within minutes the city was split apart like an accordion. Forty-five miles to the north, the town of Spitak, population 30,000, was virtually "erased from the face of the earth," in the words of a Soviet television commentator. Said a local news-agency editor: "Ninety-nine percent of the population is gone...
...liberal member Frances Cooper were both preparing to visit the out-of-town candidates, he said...
With its shop-lined main street, baseball field and grassy square, Wellsburg, W. Va., is in many ways a typical American town. Perhaps too typical. A survey last spring found that almost 70% of the Wellsburg area's 11,000 residents were at risk for heart disease. "I was just shocked that my cholesterol was that high," says Kitty Weidner, 75, whose reading was 241 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) of blood. Admits store owner Tom Zurbuch, 46, a former junk- food junkie whose cholesterol level was about 265: "Apparently, we haven't been eating right...