Word: wilkerson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which until last week looked much the same as when it was built in 1845. There was a formal garden in back where few sounds louder than the tinkling of teacups were ever heard. The owner of the Federal-style $250,000 house, Businessman James Platt Wilkerson, had furnished the interior Georgian style. The rooms were filled with art and rare antiques, including a 1790 square piano. Wilkerson was especially proud of his paneled library, called the Bird Room because it housed a collection of wood, metal and china birds. It was a site for refined, elegant living...
...tangle of ground-level debris. Behind its façade of gentility, the house had become a laboratory of violence, its products designed to destroy the stable society that its elegance symbolized. When three explosions shattered the dwelling, Wilkerson's daughter Cathlyn, 25, and an unidentified young woman emerged dazed and trembling from the crumbling, burning ruins. Having donned a neighbor's old clothes, the pair disappeared before police came. At the end of last week, they were still missing. ∙ In the ruins, police found 60 sticks of dynamite, 30 blasting caps and four dynamite-packed pipes...
...crafted goods to tourists at 400% markups. They resent the white sportsmen who gun down caribou from airplanes, while their own hunting for lifesaving game is restricted by white laws. They become furious at the white shopkeepers' use of Indian religious symbols and bad portraits of Indian chiefs. Don Wilkerson, the Cherokee-Creek director of the Phoenix Indian Center, claims that a bar in Scottsdale, Ariz., has a huge picture of a great Indian chief on its roof as an advertising gimmick. "The Jewish people would not permit such treatment of one of their revered leaders," he says. "Nor would...