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...youngster began tagging along at any GOP functions he could get into. In 1976, he supervised the township youth campaign for a U.S. Congressional candidate. Elliott's man lost but took Bremen by a wider margin than he received in his home township. "The first big break," the senior recalls with mock seriousness...
Driving on back roads, the couple meandered through northern Illinois as far as Chicago, east into Indiana, south to Paducah, Ky., and then into the St. Louis area. Back in Carman township, Ill., distraught family members, unaware that the Graftons were motoring aimlessly, reported them missing...
Thanks to Gary, a communications major from Penn State, Rob, 23, now lies in his bedroom in Hopewell Township, Pa., at the heart of one of the most sophisticated computer control and communications centers in the U.S. It is a remarkable patchwork of off-the-shelf electronics parts, including a desktop computer, a remote-control video recorder, a scattering of video games and pinball machines, a conference-type telephone system and a backyard antenna big enough to broadcast network-quality television signals. All of it was pieced together during the past five years by Gary and Ted Ruscitti...
...known locally as Lost Acres or No Man's Land, a tiny neighborhood of 13 households in Southfield Township near Detroit that because of an administrative fluke, comes under no government's jurisdiction for fire protection. The township has been providing the service with tax dollars from all residents, without compensating taxes from the households. On Tuesday, 15 of the area's 18 registered voters went to the polls to decide whether they should tax themselves to pay the township for its help. Seven ballots were invalidated because, contrary to state law, they were marked with checks...
...their hopes and their fears," he says. "According to Christian principles, the present policy is not justified. There must be change." Perhaps it will come in the future. For now, however, Smith and his wife have moved into a modest house in a whites-only section just beyond Mamelodi township. He would like to live among his parishioners, but his new church is located in an area restricted to blacks...