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...relatively few who reached old age simply stayed at home, inevitably working less and less but expecting and getting as their rightful due more and more care from their families. Industrialization, urbanization and the automobile have ended that. Most Americans no longer live on farms or in closely knit family groups. Ever more mobile, Americans by the tens of millions do not stay rooted in one place all their lives but pull up stakes, move and move again. Of those who hold on in the old home town, few live out their lives in one house. Married couples rarely stay...
Last year the Meeropols allowed their cover to be completely blown in an illustrated New York Times article. So far, it has not proved harmful to their tightly knit domesticity. Michael lives with his wife Ann, daughter Veronica Ethel ("Ivy"), 6, and adopted son Gregory Julian. Home is a newly acquired house outside Springfield, Mass. Robert lives with his wife Elli and daughter Jennifer Ethel, 2½, in a six-room apartment near Springfield's business district...
...number of collectors began to multiply, Bill Sloan, a rancher from Saginaw, Texas, decided that he could profit from the hobby. He began by selling $5 barbed bracelets, then abandoned that scheme when he received barbed remarks from women with knit dresses. But he has sold 14,000 sets of six swizzle sticks ($12.50) fashioned out of 24-karat, gold-plated barbed wire...
...Margret. "I like to be stretched," she said. "Ken not only stretched me; he put me through the wringer." Wearing a knit jumpsuit, she had to dance around a smashed TV set as the room filled with soapsuds. "But the room filled up so fast I couldn't see anything. There was Ken shouting closer, closer, and I bumped into the TV." Rushed to the hospital for 23 stitches in her hand, Ann-Margret noticed only belatedly that her jumpsuit had shrunk to half size...
...episode is all the more poignant because Heltzer, Cross and Hansen were held in highest esteem in the tightly knit and circumspect business community of Minneapolis-St. Paul. And the 3M Co., Minnesota's largest employer, prides itself on its finely developed sense of civic responsibility. Actually, 3M's travail is a classic example of the post-Watergate traumas that have plagued many U.S.companies that made illegal political campaign contributions...