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...house is unprepossessing, a small, white wooden frame structure in a quiet Salt Lake City suburb. The family patriarch, a stolid pressman of 41 with muttonchop whiskers, sits in his modest living room playing with two of his seven children. In the kitchen, three women are busy over several bushels of peaches. One woman is peeling the plump yellow fruit; another toils over the kettles simmering on the stove; a third pops peach halves into bottles. The tableau seems to be a Rockwellian slice of rural Americana, a pair of friendly neighbors helping a housewife put up peaches...
...Compound in a suburb of East Berlin will rattle off a burst of jumbled numbers aimed at a KGB undercover agent somewhere in Western Europe. The agent will respond by using the "dead-letter box" system or a powerful two-way radio no larger than three packs of king-size cigarettes...
...Soviet diplomats of earlier times, many of the new men became unusually active in local communities. Hospitable party givers, they could also be seen frequently having a drink with an M.P. or a meal with an industrialist or businessman at an expense-account restaurant. In the elegant North London suburb of Highgate (where Karl Marx's grave is located), Soviet trade-mission officials took a handsome modern office building of glass and concrete, set up house in luxurious apartments that rent for $168 to $240 a week, and went out of their way to behave like good neighbors. Their...
...save money on teachers' salaries and maintenance costs, Chicago is now planning to send children home twelve days early for Christmas vacation; in a district near Waterville, Me., the school week now has four days. Zeon J. Sykuta, superintendent in the lower-middle-class Chicago suburb of Country Club Hills, observes that the recession has forced belt tightening "when there are no notches left...
...shed their obsolete image of aloofness, bankers have adopted an air of determined bonhomie while courting customers with a full array of services, gifts and favorable interest rates. For bringing a warm touch to cold cash, not many can match Coolidge Bank & Trust Co. of Watertown, Mass., a Boston suburb.* Started by a group of local businessmen in an abandoned store a little more than a decade ago. Coolidge now has nine branches and $100 million in assets, which puts it among the top 500 of the nation's 14,000 commercial banks...