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...Massachusetts' Route 128. Some entrepreneurs in less advanced fields achieved instant millionaire status by selling out to larger firms and moving to Sunbelt states to enjoy their riches. Skilled professionals in fields such as neurosurgery and the law now make enough in fees to enable them to enter the millionaire class rather rapidly. In addition, top corporate executives are fairly often able to pile up a seven-figure net worth over the years...
Crane Beach is also one of the most expensive beaches in America. The only place to park is on beach land, and to enter the parking lot, you must pay $4.75 per car on weekends, $3 on weekdays. The hot dog stand is inconspicuous and confined to the parking lot; there are no American flags...
Chicken flying is of a piece with turtle derbies, crab races, frog jumps, armadillo rallies and possibly even buffalo chip tosses. There is no entry fee. Owners may enter as many birds as they please. Contestants are divided among four categories according to weight, and prizes of $25, $10 and $5 are awarded for the longest flights in each class, along with bright blue, red and yellow ribbons. Any chicken flying farther than the "world's record" -297 ft. 2 in., set in 1977 by a Japanese blacktail bantam named Kung Flewk -receives a cash prize of $500. What...
...have silenced too many officials, bent too many laws and traditions and apologized too often. In the area of trade and technology, the right to emigrate and strategic arms, the signs of appeasement are all too evident." Of the Administration's arguments for SALT II, the Senator declared: "To enter a treaty which favors the Soviets as this one does, on the ground that we will be in a worse position without it, is appeasement in its purest form...
...past six months, tall, white-haired Republican Congressman John Anderson of Illinois has spent much of his time careering around his home state in a battered, red Pontiac station wagon. His mission: to discover whether he had enough support to enter the presidential race. Last week his hopeful answer appeared inevitable when his wife Keke bought him a new, dark blue suit. Proudly wearing it, Anderson, 57, the chairman of the House Republican Conference and thus third-ranking member in the leadership, became the seventh G.O.P. candidate.* Said the ten-term Congressman: "I have been in the leadership...