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...rest of the U.S. tends to regard northern New Englanders, rather fondly, as staid hardy souls bred in an exacting climate and devoted to the notion that respect is something to be granted only grudgingly after years of character testing. Thus it was something of a surprise that Vermont this month moved more forcefully than any other state to grant its restive young a new equality with their elders. The Vermont legislature became the first to accord 18-year-olds full majority rights...
Blackheath is a respectable but hardly fashionable London suburb, its casual greens bordered with militarily regular rows of staid brick homes. Mrs. Roy Hodges, the mistress of the house at 51 Harvey Road, seems as unexceptional as the setting. She does her own grocery shopping, spends a great deal of her time tending to her two-year-old son while her husband runs his small art gallery. She is 34, relaxed, intelligent and plain...
...sprawl, and flop from one tier to another as conversations catch their interest. "In a 10-ft. by 12-ft. area," says Slavkin's wife Kay, "we've had as many as twelve people in practically as many postures." Black also revamped the Slavkins' staid, traditional Los Angeles house. "The problem," he says, "was a cold, formal living room and warm, informal people." Once again, he used platforms to replace furniture. "The first time people see it," says Kay Slavkin, "they just stand and gawk...
...they shall at any time change the general disposition or arrangement of any articles which shall have been placed in the Museum . . . then I give the said land, Museum, pictures, statuary, works of art and bric-a-brac, furniture, books and papers, and the said shares and the staid trust fund, to the President and Follows of Harvard College...
Second Honeymoon. A generally staid, middle-class group, the jurors were unprepared for the grueling experience, which was enough to make ding-a-lings out of the most stable personalities. Yet their deliberations seemed unaffected. The impact on their personal lives was something else...