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...will yield $1,000. A 10% tax would be needed on a house assessed at $10,000 in order to raise that same $1,000?and a town filled with $10,000 homes may need more revenue for such services as sewers and fire protection than a suburb of stately homes. Favoritism in assessments, overly generous exemptions for business, and other abuses magnify both the inequity of the tax and its inefficiency as a revenue raiser...
During the summer he trains near his home in New Trier East, a suburb of Chicago. He still swims under the AAU program in his area, an amateur organization responsible for his first serious interest in swimming at the age of eight...
...course prepared by the Unitarian Universalist Association, but that cut no ice with the district attorney of Waukesha County, Wis. The strips included scenes of a nude couple having intercourse, of masturbation and of the behavior of homosexuals. D.A. Richard McConnell told the Unitarian Church West in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield that if it showed the strips without first establishing "ground rules" with him, "prosecution could be the result." The 345 members of the congregation, convinced that the course was suitable for their twelve-to 14-year-old children, voted to go ahead with it. They also brought...
...studied engineering at M.I.T. He and his wife, Sandra Young, an Iowa farm girl, had two sons: Robert, born in 1929, and William, born in 1931 and now an English professor at the University of Michigan. The family lived a comfortable, bookish and musical life in the Boston suburb of Milton, and both boys were bright enough to go to Boston Latin School and Harvard. Bob Coles was good at tennis and running, led "a pretty active social life" and, he says, was "no more screwed up than a lot of my friends...
Emschwiller launched into his film with little introduction. Green and white blurs of a suburb, taken from a light airplane with a hand-held camera, shot across the screen and dissolved into a view of a city street. Picking out people, holding them for fifteen seconds as they walked towards the camera, freezing them, and then fading out, Emschwiller introduced his cast of players. Two of them, both women, one moody and loving, one stable but loveless, became the film's epicenters, while scenes of a nude in dance interrupted the story at intervals. As the film progressed, the nude...