Word: suburb
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...Bolton, Mass., a town that traditionally earned its living by raising swine. Newcomers to the town proposed an ordinance limiting new piggeries to a maximum of eight swine. They were angrily voted down. A man named Stephen Kenney was hauled before the village court in the Buffalo suburb of Kenmore and ordered to cut the growth in his front yard or be fined. He explained that the six-foot-high stand of weeds was in fact a meadow of wild flowers, "a natural yard, growing the way God intended." Wrong, said the court. The yard was a hazard to drivers...
...Pentagon spending. Massachusetts, the state usually described as the most liberal in the nation, currently ranks fourth among all states in the amount it receives in defense contracts: some $7.7 billion. In 1985 alone, $2.3 billion worth of defense-related business went to Raytheon, based in the Boston suburb of Lexington, where the shots heard round the world were fired. The ammunition they are firing today is more sophisticated: Patriot and Hawk air defense missiles for the Army, Sparrow air-to-air missiles for the Navy...
Animosity toward blacks and a history of racial violence long ago earned Cicero, Ill. (pop. 62,000), a reputation as the "Selma of the North." In 1983 the Justice Department sued the Chicago suburb for housing and job discrimination, and last week Cicero's town board finally agreed to change its ways. Bowing to a consent decree, the town will adopt a fair-housing resolution and eliminate its rule against hiring only residents for municipal jobs. Few observers were impressed. Said the N.A.A.C.P.'s Mel Ford Jordan: "It is an action consistent with 1860, which for Cicero is progressive." Town...
...their devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and their charitable works. Through the De Rance Foundation, which Harry started in 1946 with an inherited 46% interest in the Miller Brewing Co., they funded everything from leper colonies in Africa to antipoverty programs in hometown Milwaukee. Residing in the unpretentious suburb of Wauwatosa, the Johns cherished obscurity as a virtue commended by the 17th century Trappist monk Armand Jean De Rance, for whom Harry named the foundation. Though De Rance became the world's largest Catholic charity, the Johns stayed out of the spotlight...
First-time buyers, though, are as eager as they come. Richard and Shirley Brownstein have spent the past three years looking for an affordable house in a Chicago suburb while they lived with their two sons, 6 and 3, in a two- bedroom apartment. When interest rates tumbled, the couple was finally able to swing a mortgage and buy a home. In July they will move into a three- bedroom ranch house in Woodridge, Ill. (price: $90,000). Says Richard, a credit supervisor for J.I. Case, a farm-equipment manufacturer: "If we didn't buy a house this year...