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...some French fries and a dish of maple-walnut ice cream. That was what one had been doing on the superhighway to Washington ever since it was built back at the dawn of the Republic. But when that familiar orange roof loomed up out of the rain near Wilmington, Del., it turned out that the orange roof covered only a Howard Johnson motor lodge and the adjoining restaurant called itself Bob's Big Boy. It would be uncharitable to criticize a Big Boy restaurant for not being a Howard Johnson's, but when one has been looking forward...
...abuse by divorcing him, she got an order of protection warning him to stay away. But Alan Matheney continued to intimidate her, Bianco complained, and eventually abducted the couple's two young daughters, then 6 and 2. When police caught up with him more than 650 miles away, in Wilmington, N.C., they extradited Matheney back home to Mishawaka, Ind. Bianco pressed charges, but Matheney was released after posting $1,000 bail. Other arrests for beatings followed, as did another release. Finally, in 1987, faced with charges that included illegal confinement, rape and assault, Matheney plea-bargained...
That ferocious competitive drive has propelled Jordan since his boyhood in Wilmington, N.C., where he grew up the fourth of five children in a close-knit middle-class family. Although his parents James and Deloris pushed education, not sports, Michael developed into an athlete for all seasons, successfully competing in baseball, football and basketball. Larry Jordan, one year his elder, would prove a motivating force. Though Michael eventually outpaced and outgrew Larry, who still plays semipro basketball, he credits his elder brother for his aggressive style of play. "When you see me play," he says, "you see Larry play...
Terry Zintl, who has served as Isaacson's deputy, will take charge of the section. Zintl has reported on presidential politics and edited campaign stories since 1972, when he was working for the Morning News in Wilmington, Del. He was disappointed by the shallowness and demagoguery of 1988. "It was full of sound and fury that signified a lot less than it should have," he says...
...train stations around the country have been renovated. They have been transformed into museums or municipal office buildings or restaurants. Happily, some of the old depots where trains still stop have also been refurbished: New York City's Grand Central is undergoing a / partial restoration, and in Wilmington, Del., and Philadelphia, once run-down train stations are back in order...