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...late-spring evening. But these counties are hardly suburbs anymore, at least in the traditional sense of being bedroom communities for nearby cities. Not only jobs but also gourmet restaurants and chic stores are close at hand. As a result, people like Engineer Daniel Nee, a resident of Gwinnett County, Ga., 18 miles from Atlanta, commonly go six months or more without feeling any necessity to take their families downtown...
People of more modest means who are searching for a detached house in the suburbs must sometimes settle for depressingly spartan structures. To hold down prices, one major builder in Gwinnett County, Ga., 20 miles north of Atlanta, sells $70,000 houses with up to one-third of the interior space unfinished. Owners can complete the rooms later, when they have the money. Bathroom and kitchen floors are covered with vinyl instead of tile, and closets have sliding doors made out of a light plastic material rather than wood. Boston Builder Anthony Lapuma has turned out the first half dozen...
...Button Gwinnett Hospital, Flynt lay in critical condition. Surgeons began by removing much of his intestine. Then, in a second operation, they removed his spleen. After transferring him to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, doctors finally removed the bullet lodged near his spinal cord. It had cut spinal nerves, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors gave him less than a fifty-fifty chance of regaining full use of his legs. President Carter's sister, Ruth Stapleton, who had presided over Flynt's celebrated conversion last fall, flew in to Atlanta and called...
...Atlanta, Judge William Alexander of the Fulton County State Court ordered Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, to stand trial on charges of disseminating obscene material. Flynt, who faces similar charges in neighboring Gwinnett County, is free on bail while appealing a seven- to 25-year sentence in Cincinnati. The new trials could mean added penalties of up to 17 years...
...Washington in which he refused "pecuniary reward" for his services to the young country fetched $37,000 in 1973, an alltime record for a presidential letter. The highest price ever bid for a letter may be $51,000, the sum paid in 1927 for a routine communication by Button Gwinnett, one of the obscurest signers of the Declaration, whose rare autograph helped fuel the bidding at last week's auction...