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...March 1987, two days after Wesley Scott graduated from the police academy and joined the force in suburban Cicero, he discovered a photo of the Ku Klux Klan pasted to his locker. "Who's going to kill Wesley?" one of the robed Klansmen in the picture asked. Another replied, "I'm going to kill Wesley." Across the bottom was written "The Ku Klux Klan is going to kill you." Recalls Scott: "A few of the guys were shaking their heads, but a lot of the guys were laughing." Scott did not report the incident to his superiors, one of whom...
RIDING A SMALL, FAST-MOVING VEHICLE. Anticipating the collapse, the managers of suburban Chicago's relatively tiny Mathers Fund moved 62% of its assets into cash in the months before Oct. 19. Then they plunged back into the market during the last 45 minutes of Black Monday and kept buying for nine days. Since then, their purchases have surged in value, helping to boost the Mathers Fund from $154 million in assets just before the crash to $201 million now. Its increase of 27% during 1987 was the best performance by any U.S. growth fund...
...Suburban Chicago's Oberweis Securities, a fast-growing small firm before the crash, abruptly halted its expansion plans this year. James Oberweis, the company chairman, decided to diversify by selling 50.1% of his brokerage to another firm and expanding his family's dairy company by buying a chain of ice-cream shops. Says Oberweis: "The ice-cream business is a lot better than the brokerage business these days...
...presidential race looks -- on television -- from an important battleground. -- Nervous and overprogrammed, Dan Quayle was overmastered by Lloyd Bentsen. -- The electoral- vote map favors Bush. -- Two striking stories from suburban Chicago show racism' s lingering brutality in America. -- Why the U. S. is losing the trade war and what can be done about it -- a campaign essay...
Agnes, who has been working with local and federal officials to create acceptable evacuation plans for the suburban towns surrounding the plant, was immediately approached by several NRC security guards...