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Serious crime almost never happens here; crack and heroin come to town only on TV news shows. Boasts the mayor, Thelma Bisenius: "This is a place where you don't have to lock your door and you can let your children come into downtown alone." Clay Center citizens care about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small-Town Blues | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

The readiest child of the week was the schoolgirl swimmer Janet Evans, 17, winsome, lithesome and as single-minded as a shark. She ditched the homework she brought from California, but plans to offer the excuse that she had to sing The Star-Spangled Banner three times. After so many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners All! | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

The decision was not a surprise. In a 1984 case involving the Jaycees and in a 1987 ruling involving the Rotary International, the Justices unanimously decided that states could use laws that ban discrimination in public accommodations to compel some private organizations to admit women. Similarly, the New York ordinance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Storming The Last Male Bastion | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

According to State Transportation Authority planner Frank Bracagila, Salvucci's plan would relieve jams on Routes 2 and 16 by "getting local traffic onto the regional highway network." To do this, he said the plan would elevate Route 2, add new lanes and ramps to the existing highway and build...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: N. Cambridge Seething Over Plan For Route 2 Highway Expansion | 3/15/1988 | See Source »

Until last week, politics was a cram course in human diversity; the candidates spent a year talking and listening in living rooms and Rotary clubs from Iowa to New Hampshire. From now on, however, they will come to view the nation as an interchangeable sequence of airports, access roads and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, I Must Be Going | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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