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...known locally as Lost Acres or No Man's Land, a tiny neighborhood of 13 households in Southfield Township near Detroit that because of an administrative fluke, comes under no government's jurisdiction for fire protection. The township has been providing the service with tax dollars from all residents, without compensating taxes from the households. On Tuesday, 15 of the area's 18 registered voters went to the polls to decide whether they should tax themselves to pay the township for its help. Seven ballots were invalidated because, contrary to state law, they were marked with checks...
...Southfield, Mich...
Meanwhile, the suffering goes on. The day before Thanksgiving, Albert Fouchia of Southfield lost his job with a rivet supplier for the second time in 18 months. At the unemployment office in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, a dozen long lines of people wait for benefit checks in shamed, disconsolate quiet. Most act too embarrassed to talk even to fellow job seekers. Few seem hopeful of finding work. Says Gloria Condele, 44, a laid off cashier: "Even people who are still working are worried." Roy Gavel, previously laid off as a Chevrolet assembly worker in 1975, got certified...
...bottom-line think tankers. A new entry which has a claw-hold on the bestseller lists is Cat's Revenge: More than 101 Uses for Dead People. It is the product of Philip Lief, 36. A book packager and author who lives with his wife and cat in Southfield, Mass. He presents human corpses-and parts thereof-that serve gleeful felines as life rafts, bowling balls and stamp-licking machines. His next attempt to amuse in the cat-dollar sweepstakes will appear in March, Cat's Revenge II, and in April, How to Make Love...
Lorie Davis Southfield, Mich...