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...nation. Montgomery County, Md., has a per capita income about 50% above the national average, thanks largely to the battalions of Washington bureaucrats who live there. Even though these residents pay local real estate taxes, Montgomery County receives $6 million a year in Impact Aid. Similarly, Washington's suburban Fairfax County, Va., where Langley High School has a country club atmosphere, receives $13 million annually...
BORN. To Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, 34, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, and Charles S. Robb, 39, Virginia's Lieutenant Governor: their third child, third daughter; in Fairfax, Va. Name: Jennifer...
...large, administrators have taken the students' plight philosophically. Not so, however, at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., which has been forced to house students in motel rooms near campus until new dorms are finished. As a result, 105 George Mason students are enjoying maid service and color TV. The school's tab? Over...
...overlapping, federal, state and local environmental regulations are the current headache. They are well intentioned and may indeed prevent ecological damage, but they promote inflation. Fairfax County, Va., stopped all building for 18 months while officials drew up a master plan for development; when the moratorium was lifted, pent-up demand sent land prices soaring...
...Died. Fairfax M. Cone, 74, advertising tycoon and public-spirited Chicago civic leader; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. Co-founder and director of Foote, Cone & Belding, he maintained that an ad should be a simple "substitute for talking to someone." He helped make Sara Lee, Kotex, Kleenex, Hallmark, Sunkist and even the doomed Edsel household names, but perhaps his most famous ad was for the American Tobacco account: "With men who know tobacco best... it's Luckies two to one." Despite its title, Cone's autobiography, With All Its Faults: A Candid Account of Forty Years...