European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday july 6, 1991 faces of place Groom gets the Long after the Short of it. From wire reports things Are looking up for Roberta and Michael Mueller who were married in san Francisco during a convention of tall people after years of unsuccessful dating in a pint size world. The wedding party was so big that the average height of a person in the City grew slightly during the ceremony. A a in be gone from one extreme to the other a said the 6-foot-3 Groom whose former wife was 5 feet tall. His new Bride is 6-foot-1, and is. Tall International 1990. The 20 contestants from the 1991 contest were her bridesmaids at the ceremony attended by about 100 people from the 44th annual tall club International convention. The clubs admits women who Are at least 5-foot-10 and men at least 6-foot-2. In a Short ceremony under foggy skies Roberta 41, and Michael 39, exchanged nuptials almost Eye to Eye. Neither had seriously dated anyone of comparable stature. The first of the 57 tall clubs in the United states and Canada was founded in 1938 by Kae Sumner Einfeldt a 6-foot cartoonist who Drew dwarfs for Walt Disney films. Wedding guest Renee Silverthorn at a Mere 6 feet tall said when she joined the tip toppers of Detroit three years ago she thought a the died and gone to heaven a tall  the Laws members of the town Council of Schererville ind., who rushed 10 ordinances into Law so members could get Home to see the final game of the Aba championship missed a few Legal hoops and. Must j vote again the City attorney ruled. Council members passed 10 ordinances in 40 minutes before adjourning in time for the beginning of the fifth and As it turned out final game of the National basketball association championship series. Attorney James Wieser said this week that All but one of the measures passed june 12 will have to be voted on again before they become Law. Early in the meeting As a Tim saving measure the Council passed a motion to suspend rules and consider ordinances by their titles Only a sparing the trouble of Reading them out loud. Council members Fig Rcd that would be sufficient to forgo the two required readings of new Laws. But Wieser said the Council did no to pass the proper motion to suspend the readings. Among other things the Laws raised fees for fireworks permits amended the towns salary Law set up a commission on recycling and banned dump Rig refuse in drainage ditches. The Only ordinance that passed properly was one that rescinded a police officers promotion to Captain Wieser  Broccoli bashing president Bush offered his own Tongue in Cheek theory thursday for what really killed Zachary Taylor. Speaking at an Independence Day Celebration in the ozarks town of Marshfield mo., Bush noted that it was on a fourth of july Back in 1850 when the 12th president took ill after attending a Celebration in scorching weather. A Aback in Washington that was the fateful Day that Zachary Taylor gobbled Down those cherries with Buttermilk a Bush related. A a it a a Little known fact not disprove by when they dug the poor Guy up the other Day and put him Back that his last words were a please pass the Broccoli a a quipped Bush the nations chief Broccoli hater. The crowd broke into applause and laughter. Taylor a body was exhumed last month to Check a historians theory that he might have been poisoned with arsenic. A Kentucky medical examine found no evidence to support the  for the witches Arthur Miller author of the Crucible a play about the Salem mass., Witch trials will join the City in its 300th anniversary observation of the witchcraft hysteria. Miller will attend the nov. 14 unveiling of the winning design for a memorial to those executed during the 1692 trials City officials said. The memorial is intended to show How tolerance eventually prevailed Over fear and ignorance. Millers the Crucible written in 1952, draws parallels Between the trials and the anti communist hearings of the time. A it in Crucible focuses on the theme of intolerance which is a primary Issue in Salem a commemoration of the 1692 Witch trials a said Ira Schlosser vice president of the Essex Institute in Salem where Miller did  Ain t Happy Freedom of expression won the Day Over grammatical correctness at a National gathering of teachers in Miami Beach fla., thursday. A to shirt that flippantly read a i be a teacher a prompted a 20-minute floor debate at the National education association s annual convention. The 8,100 teacher delegates finally voted resoundingly for the Freedom to be ungrammatical a even when  pvt a checking out Winner Oscar Baer laughs with paramedics who were checking on him after he wan the . National senior games in Syracuse n.y., at the age of 82. Joke is aimed at their own profession. During discussion of a proposal to ban items promoting alcohol tobacco or drug use at Nea convention exhibit Booths Carol Haack an English teacher from Appleton wis., offered an amendment to ban the Sale of any a deliberately ungrammatical product. A was a teacher of English and a professional anything that is connected with us should be Correct a she said. But several teachers pointed out the irony of the Nea considering a motion to restrict Freedom of expression on the very Day it was celebrating the Bicentennial of the Bill of rights. One English teacher said simply a i done to want no such motion  d1m stars and stripes George Manes special projects projects editor George Manes thought head seen just about everything in his 20 years As a reporter and editor. Then he came to the stars and stripes. He and his wife and two teenage sons arrived in Europe the week the Berlin Wall crumbled. In the ensuing year and a half he has helped supervise the newspapers coverage of the collapse of the East bloc the unification of Germany and the War in the Manes was chief of the stars and stripes eight Man Middle East Bureau Durina the ground War. He was the Only journalist at the scene of the infamous scud attack in Dhahran that killed 28 americans the deadliest event of the War. Before filing his Story he helped carry the dead from the soldering ruins of the temporary Barracks. _ Manes was City editor of the press Democrat in Santa Rosa calif., before joining the stars and stripes. He and his staff won several major awards for spot news and in nth report Tina. Now. As assistant City editor Lor projects a is Raspon Sable Tor Davai Oping special ii depth stories that examine critical issues that face the readers. Among  he pm on 0amblln9 military an examination of cafes gasoline pricing and a took at military meat processing facilities. Mane relishes the projects assignment because it Tut tills the. Traditional newspaper role of serving As a watchdog Tor the Reader 0811 Quot and a Dur no v i Quot an covering pm a in Ninny