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Along with the care for appearance went a determination to make his own way. Simon originally intended to go to law school, but at the end of his sophomore year he married the former Carol Girard, a Marymount College coed and daughter of a New Jersey businessman. By the time of his graduation in 1951 they had one child, and he had to make money immediately. Through a classmate he got a job on Wall Street, and he went into municipal-bond trading. His instincts and knack for making quick decisions gave him an exquisite sense of when to sell...
...home, on a seven-acre estate in McLean, Va., Simon seeks to set an example of energy conservation. Wife Carol keeps the thermostat down to 64°, and gathers the family in the library (four daughters are living at home, another daughter and a son are away at school, and a second son is working on Wall Street). "I close the door and keep the fire going," she says. "We close off the living room and other rooms." Dinners are by candlelight, though father is seldom home for them. In another gesture of conspicuous non-consumption, the Simons are getting...
...Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Non-Parenthood (NON) sought equal time with its child-rearing counterparts yesterday when it named Carol and Stuart Shapiro its non-parents of the year...
...Ogden Nash, A Carol for Children...
...California commune, the children celebrate not by decorating a tree but by planting one, then singing the un-Christmas carol Shantih, Shantih, Shantih around the seedling...