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...reported Willwerth by telephone from Harrisburg, where he talked with investigating doctors, "is just as sudden and unexplained as in a crime or science-fiction story. Even for the literal minded, it seems as though an evil spirit is loose." Willwerth followed the trail of misery and sudden death westward from Philadelphia to hospitals, laboratories and finally a funeral at Williamstown...
Marquette Park residents seemed to consider the King march as somewhat akin to a probing action by an approaching enemy. Over the past few years blacks have moved inexorably westward until they reached Western Avenue, a gritty commercial thoroughfare only a few blocks from the park. Declared Store Owner Tony Caprio, 53: "This is the battlefield. We know that if we give up the park, it's the end of the Southwest Side. The blacks aren't going...
...long, sometimes treacherous 19th century Westward trek of covered wagons is deeply embedded in American legend, folklore and sense of national identity. Thousands of pioneers, for example, braved the perilous Oregon Trail. Now, to salute the Western settlers, Americans representing all 50 states are replaying history in reverse by forming Eastbound wagon trains. They are set to arrive in Valley Forge, Pa., July 3. The following day, President Ford will address the passengers in the 60 official wagons and approximately 2,000 other travelers. The Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission sponsored an official wagon from each state, plus ten escort wagons. Wagon...
...Traditionally, that decision is left to individual developers. In Los Angeles, for example, Occidental Petroleum decided that the financial center would move south of the old downtown, and built its headquarters in the likeliest southern line of growth. But Atlantic Richfield and three banks bet the movement would be westward and built their towers accordingly. As things turned out, the west won, which leaves Occidental in solitary splendor, at least temporarily. Not that it matters: the building boom in Los Angeles is not only around the new towers, but also miles away in Century City and West wood. The theory...
...years ago. The act denied Canadians both self-government and the right to trial by jury. But it confirmed the nearly feudal authority of the French landowning seigneurs, established the freedom (and thus the power) of Roman Catholicism in Canada, and granted to Canada great tracts of land spreading westward along the Ohio River...