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Lawrence Tero left the Chicago housing project to make his fortune. He came home famous, rich and decorated with gold chains, a Mohawk haircut and a new name: Mr. T. The star of TV's The A Team moved into a mansion in the leafy suburb of Lake Forest. Now Mr. T's name is mud. In a community proudly known as Tree City, U.S.A., Mr. T has been keeping chain saws whining to cut down some 100 or so trees. Allergies, said a spokesman. But Mr. T, surveying his emergent pasture in red shorts and T shirt, said...
Still, many people flocking into the megacounties consider them a close-to- ideal blend of city and suburb. "There are few things you can't do here within an hour," says Orange County Teacher Greg Hickman. "You can head to the mountains, the desert, the water or a shopping center." Agrees Gemma Turi, a public relations consultant who switched from commuting into Los Angeles to a new job in Irvine, near her home in Newport: "It's like being on vacation except you get to live here...
...state department of corrections announced last week that it had finally found a home for Singleton. His new address: Richmond (pop. 78,000), a blue collar Contra Costa suburb of San Francisco. State officials were unclear about whether Singleton would stay permanently in the area, but his neighbors certainly acted as if he was there for good. Some 200 protesters rallied at Richmond's city hall, chanting "He must go!" and listening to local politicians denounce Singleton. Said Mayor George Livingston: "My suggestion would be to put him on the barge where that garbage is and let him float away...
...moved up to a Mercedes-Benz, later a BMW and now a 1986 Porsche 944. Shapiro pays only about $450 a month for the Porsche -- considerably less than the $800 a month he figures a conventional auto loan would cost him. Tom and Dede Spencer of Kirkwood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, decided to lease their 1987 Dodge Caravan for $367.50 a month. They can spend the money they would otherwise use for a car down payment for new carpeting and the delivery-room bills for their new baby...
...Next, taking a cue from Europe's successful hypermarkets, Walton plans to open a chain of Wal-Mart Supercenters, which will offer consumers everything from groceries to hardware in one sprawling 220,000-sq.-ft. emporium. The first one, a test model, will debut this fall in a Dallas suburb...