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...started out as a trickle from places like Agawam, Mass., Diamond Bar, Calif., and Yardley, Pa. In short order it became a flood from Medford Lakes, N.J., Irvington, N.Y., Arvada, Colo., and all across the nation. Pictures of rosy-cheeked little girls in lace dresses and little boys who looked as though they would much rather be fishing than squirming in a photographer's studio. It is as if hundreds of thousands of American parents all thought that the high point of 1981 would be the moment when they could say to their friends and neighbors...
...does the hard sell end when acceptance letters go out. Tom Rice of Irvington High in Westchester County, N.Y., applied to several Ivy League colleges, as well as Wesleyan, Georgetown, Haverford and the State University of New York at Binghamton. Accepted across the board, he was "practically blitzed with brochures," he says. Yale invited Tom and other successful applicants, along with their parents, to a reception at the local country club, and even supplied music by a popular Yale chorus. He is headed for New Haven next September...
...Irvington-on-Hudson...
...ground, they congeal into patterns of dense urban settlement on the rim of the New York metropolitan area-Newark and East Orange and Orange and Maplewood and Irvington and Bloomfield and Glen Ridge. There are no green belts, no distinct borders: instead, there are parkways, railroads, and political boundaries that may run through the middle of a block. Main Street in East Orange becomes Main Street in Orange, and except for the change in house numbers, one town melts into another. Near the center of East Orange is a giant cross formed by the interchange between the Garden State Parkway...
HENRI FLUCHÉRE Irvington...