Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fortress mentality is taken literally at Lindbergh Junior High in Long Beach, Calif. After a bullet zinged past the head of gym teacher Joan Reedy last year, the school spent $160,000 to build a 10-ft. wall to separate the rear boundary from a housing project and its gang gunfights. Reedy, for one, is pleased: "Teaching here is so much more relaxed. It's given us a sense of safety, and you can feel the unity of the school growing and growing...
...most impressive of the new public buildings was the Olympic stadium in Berlin, and there Hitler welcomed the powerful and famous of other lands -- for example, the celebrated American aviator Charles Lindbergh -- to his refurbished capital. And despite the fuss over a black American, Jesse Owens, winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the team that scored the most points overall was Nazi Germany...
...Good fences make good neighbors," says a line by Robert Frost. At Long Beach's Lindbergh Junior High School, the idea was to keep out some very bad neighbors. For years, outdoor gym classes have been endangered by bullets, bottles and even an arrow from the neighboring Carmelitos housing project. One student was shot while playing basketball in the Lindbergh school yard two years ago. A year later, gym teacher Joan Reedy had to hustle her class into the building when a bullet whizzed past...
After community leaders proved unable to cool the violence, school officials decided to bulletproof the school. Last week workmen began building a 10-ft.- high, 900-ft.-long concrete wall to shield Lindbergh from the housing project. Cost...
...Interior Department ceded a 1.1-acre plot adjacent to the grave site to Maui County for recreational use. Local residents as well as the Lindbergh family winced at the idea of picnic tables and chain-link fencing, and the park was never built. Now the Federal Government may take back the land and put it up for auction. A driveway could slice through the cemetery within 20 ft. of Lucky Lindy's grave. Whether the site remains in public or private hands, the world is already pressing in on the Lone Eagle: more than 50 visitors a day find their...