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Though surprisingly subdued so far, regionalism is an obstacle of unknown seriousness to the Carter program. Protests Pat Wakefield, mayor of Hunter's Creek, an affluent Houston suburb: "There's nothing fair about controlled gas prices at the same time as those people in the East and North are refusing to permit drilling in their states...
...President Carter's program to conserve energy is to succeed, U.S. suburbanites-the nation's most careless squanderers of energy-will have to change their attitudes substantially, and their life-styles somewhat, too. To learn how one representative American suburb uses energy, and how it has responded to Carter's call for conservation, TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney went to Hinsdale, Illinois. Then, to see how another affluent suburb takes a different approach to the same problem, TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman visited Rösrath, outside of Cologne, West Germany. Their reports...
Obscure liberal arts college in Boston suburb seeks athletic director. Good pay, flexible hours, prestige galore, free tickets to all athletic contests, home and away. Looks good should you some day apply to law school...
April turned savage in Georgia, hurling a Southern Airways DC-9 to the ground under a barrage of hail, and killing 70 people. In Alabama, where twisting tornadoes leveled a middle-class suburb of Birmingham, 20 died...
From the day that Real Estate Investor Michael Sparks took over the 468-unit Twelve Oaks apartment complex in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, he knew what he wanted to do with it: get the children out and turn it into a singles development. At first he told tenants who have children that he would not renew their leases, but a 1909 Illinois statute was discovered prohibiting such a landlord action. Then Sparks decided to levy a $15-a-month head tax for each child in the buildings...