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Other residents of Spring Mill Estates, an affluent Indianapolis suburb, knew Marguarite Jackson as "the demon lady." Though known to be rich, the plump, white-haired widow, 66, lived modestly, seldom venturing beyond the chain-link fence that guarded her weed-choked, three-acre property. Delivery men were instructed to stop on the street, honk, then pass their parcels to her over the fence. Lights blazed in the beige stone house day and night. When Mrs. Jackson did appear, her talk was a litany of paranoia. She cussed out other residents for complaining about her trash on the roadside...
...Washington New Town, a suburb of Newcastle, the President visited the manor where George Washington's forebears lived from 1228 to 1613. After walking to the village green, he planted a tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) seedling that came from descendants of trees Washington himself had planted in the U.S. at Mount Vernon...
...lawn keepers face a new peril this spring: a small but growing band of "natural" landscapers who scorn the national fetish for meticulously manicured lawns and are letting their yards grow as wild and weedy as nature permits. One such heretic, Donald Hagar of New Berlin, Wis., a Milwaukee suburb, let plant life take its course when he moved into a house on 2½ acres in the town's Sun Shadows West subdivision. Hagar put in some wild Wisconsin prairie grass and let nature do the rest. The result: knee-high waves of goldenrod, aster, orchard grass...
...rare chance to meet the ordinary people--the young future leaders of this Boston suburb," Chase said. Then Chase spoke about life in the outside world. "It's so exciting--the world. It's such a flexible world. I'm proud for you and I'm proud for me and so very, very horny," Chase said, adding "I meant flattered...
...have any thought of buying a house figure they had better move immediately before the price of single-family homes climbs beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest. Says Atlanta Businessman Rod Kinder, 51, who paid $89,500 for a New England type house in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody last month: "We decided to buy now before it got out of the realm of reality altogether. It was now or never...