Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haired lawyer with the amiably innocent look of a Teddy bear; his wife Jane is a teacher's aide at a nearby school. Together they earn $40,000 a year. They live with their eight-year-old son Peter in a handsomely renovated Victorian house in a wealthy suburb of Chicago. They have a new car and a new kitchen, and their lawn has no crab grass. Peter has just learned to do handstands. They look like the All-American Family living the All-American Dream. They are also broke. They are not only broke...
Steve and Jane Brinkley, with whom this report began, started reorganizing their lives in their Chicago suburb and have survived. They even found that their son preferred public school to the private institution that had cost them $2,000 a year. Rebecca Marsh Lewis, near Dallas, finally paid off her last bills in March. She and her new husband make "limited use" of their credit cards. Jeanne, the California businesswoman, is still paying but looks on her situation as "one of those life crises we will have to overcome together." One of the hardest parts, she says, was "the attitude...
...build modern Argentina. Those Anglo-Argentines have long formed a special, privileged class in the country, with their own schools, hospitals, charities, churches and genteelly British ways of life. They congregate at institutions like the Hurlingham Club, a vast social and recreational complex in the heavily British Buenos Aires suburb of Hurlingham. The club has five polo fields, two swimming pools, a golf course, cricket pitch and gabled clubhouse. Says an Anglo-Argentine businessman: "The tragedy of it all is that 99% of the Anglo-Argentine community are in favor of the Argentine stand. We can't understand...
...peace, then I felt I had to do something about nuclear weapons." At Yale, 1,000 people filled the university chapel to hear Evangelist Billy Graham, a very recent convert to the cause, denounce nuclear war as the ultimate sin. In Rochester, Mich., a well-to-do Detroit suburb, a crowd of 500 paid $10 apiece to be enlightened by four speakers, including SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke...
...started out like a quickie Hollywood knockoff of the Patty Hearst story. Pretty, dark-haired Stephanie Riethmiller and her roommate, Patty Thiemann, both 20, were walking home to their apartment in a Cincinnati suburb one evening last October when two young men stopped them, ostensibly to ask directions. Suddenly, the men grabbed Riethmiller and dragged her to a waiting van, squirting Mace in Thiemann's face to prevent her from following. As the van sped off, the terrified Riethmiller discovered that her father William was among her kidnapers. He recalls: "Stephanie looked up and I said, 'Hi, Stephanie...