SANTA CLAUS MOTORS INTO MOTOWN
In a city once dominated by General Motors, someone is giving away Gen. Grant. A man dressed in a white tuxedo is distributing $50 bills to passersby. It happened Thursday...
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AN ANIMAL QUACKER CRUMBLES
A pain in the neck for a lame duck in St. Cloud, Minn., is about to end. An elusive mallard, hobbled since May by a dart embedded in its neck,...
AN ELECTRIFYING RUN IN THE RAIN
West Naze spent the weekend thanking his lucky stars. Naze, 22, of Allouez, Wis., was struck by lightning Thursday afternoon while running in a light rain behind Green Bay East...
Today you read about animals. No, not…
Today you read about animals. No, not Rush Street. And not Southeast Evanston howling over another power failure, or about the Cubs, who seem to be sliding into hibernation. This...
BUG ZAPPERS: ARE THEY MERELY ENTERTAINING?
They`re called bug zappers. They incinerate insects with a satisfying snap, crackle and pop. But are they really any good against mosquitoes? And could they be effective against the flying...
HAAGEN-DAZS AND STEVE`S TOP THE COOL COMPETITION
Superpremium ice creams seem to be descending on Chicago as quickly as cherries disappear from a sundae. But what`s the difference between Ben & Jerry`s and Steve`s? And how does...
RED-HOT TO COOL: DRAMA IN GRAND STYLE
A notion of colorful opposites appealed to Sherelle Powell. Polarity on a grand scale is what she got--an overwhelmingly ivory living room, an explosively red dining room, one side with...
EQUIPMENT FOR BEGINNING COOKS
If you have a beginning cook on your Christmas list, here is a brief, basic checklist of the equipment they should have to outfit a kitchen, as recommended by Evanston...
`TO LIFE, TO HEALTH`: SOVIET JEWS REKINDLE MARVEL OF HANUKKAH
Stanislav Umansky raises a tumbler of vodka to his lips in a tri-lingual toast. ''L`chaim,'' he says in Hebrew, then, in Russian, ''Na zdorov`e.'' ''To life, to health,'' explains Umansky...
HUNTING FOR THE WILD CAN BRING OUT THE BEST IN MAN AND BEAST
In the chilly gray before another autumn dawn, Gib McIntosh treads quietly among the cattails of a pond. Stopping finally at water`s edge, he stands in the frozen silence, awaiting...