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- NATION, Page 43American NotesCALIFORNIAThe Great Wall Of Long Beach
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- 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 her ear.
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- 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:
- $100,000.
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