Well, thanks Karen, I've always had issues understanding links and elinks.
Meanwhile, I did finally have some success the long way around. I ran wget with
that url, changed the name from index.html.1 to gri.html. Then I ran rdrview -b
lynx gri.html which gave me a clear 52 lines of an article without any tool
bars. The funny thing was that wget would even grab that story. Now, I am
wondering if adding wget as an external in LYNX would help?