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...living at home, another daughter and a son are away at school, and a second son is working on Wall Street). "I close the door and keep the fire going," she says. "We close off the living room and other rooms." Dinners are by candlelight, though father is seldom home for them. In another gesture of conspicuous non-consumption, the Simons are getting rid of the family Jeep station wagon-"a gas eater," says Carol-and will do most of their driving instead in Son William's Chevy Nova...
...curly hair limned by the iridescent hues of the stage lights, is greeted by thunderous cheers. After four or five of his early ballads, he is again joined by the Band for a crescendo of electrified folk-rock songs studded with powerful guitar riffs. From then on, the shouting seldom stops...
...that. By way of inducement, they got an extra 2½ days of Christmas holiday time. The city's entire system of 27 elementary and eight junior-high and high schools was shut down to combat a rampaging epidemic of a malady that is never fatal and seldom serious, but severely discomforting infestation with head lice...
That view is hotly disputed by minority bankers, who contend that the nation's ghettos need many more such institutions to help customers who have been overlooked by white banks. "Until recent times, Indian people rarely saw bankers and bankers seldom saw Indians," says Barney Old Coyote, a professor of Indian studies at Montana State University. He has formed the American Indian National Bank in Washington, D.C., "to help Indians as stockholders, borrowers and depositors...
...rumors of corruption in city government. As Cambridge Democrats rally around the impeach-the-president flagpole, reports and hearsay drift up about city jobs bought and sold, spaces in public housing projects dispensed in return for favors, and city councillors paying parking tickets for major backers. City governments are seldom clean, but crushing dominance by one party makes honest government all the harder...