Word: deerfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the morning traffic began to pile up at the train station in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, the village elders decided that too many commuters were slowing things down by tarrying to kiss their wives goodbye. To curb such dalliance, the officials designated the area where cars pulled up as a "no kissing zone." They even devised what they deemed to be an appropriate sign: a diagonal red slash superimposed upon the image of a woman in curlers pecking her hatted husband. In the parking lot, away from traffic, the same sign minus the slash marked the "kissing zone...
...while." So popular are the signs that they must be taken down on Fridays and erected again on Mondays to keep them from being ripped off. The town has even taken out a copyright and plans to mass-produce the emblems on poster board at $15 a pair. Deerfield has just one more problem to solve. The congestion around the station these days is terrible...
...Protestant religious leader and the editor of an evangelical magazine. A Detroit native and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Wallis was active in the civil rights and antiwar movements a decade ago. Then he turned to religion. After studying at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill., Wallis founded Sojourners in 1975, a religious community now totaling 60 people who live together in a poor section of Washington, D.C. Sojourners runs day care centers, shelters for the indigent and a free clinic, and publishes a monthly magazine with 40,000 subscribers. Says Wallis, who spends nearly half...
Polillio's development as a football player has progressed in an intellectual sense since the days in 1974 when he averaged 10 yards a carry and set a school scoring record for an 8-0 Deerfield Academy squad...
After he left Deerfield I wrote a column in our school paper which mentioned that McDermott was the second hardest tackler that I had seen play there. To my astonishment, he read the column and when he came up to school to visit warned me that after he got through at Harvard he would prove me wrong...