Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week in Boston retired Contractor Dino Di Carlo, 61, will don colonial-style breeches, waistcoat and peruke. Then he will mount a horse and head northwestward through suburban Middlesex County, re-enacting Paul Revere's ride 200 years earlier to warn Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming to seize the colonists' military supplies. Di Carlo's trip will be the first major commemorative event since the U.S. Bicentennial celebration officially began on March 1. It promises to be a gigantic birthday bash that will involve millions of Americans, from the largest cities...
Nebraska has commissioned a dozen American artists to create pieces of outdoor sculpture at rest stops along an interstate highway. About 1,000 elementary schoolchildren from suburban Kettering, Ohio, will dress in red, white and blue clothing on July 4,1976, to re-create the human flag that welcomed the Wright brothers home...
...neatly tucked away three marriages, two divorces, 18 or 19 lovers, two children (one in wedlock, one out), a phantom fetus and a miscarriage. In real life, she is the daughter of a Methodist minister and is married to Record Producer Dan Fortunato. She commutes into Manhattan from staid suburban Westchester County. "I'd love to play a real evangelist like Aimee Semple McPherson," says Fulton of her Hollywood aspirations. In case that script doesn't work out, however, Fulton has continued fulfilling her soap-opera duties each day before heading for the Plaza...
...year, and circulation has jetted from a starting 50,000 to about 170,-000. W has a readership that Fairchild might characterize as Quality People: the typical W subscriber is a 47-year-old married woman who squeaks by on $32,000 a year, lives in a $50,000 suburban house and belongs to a country club. Less than 10% of W readers also subscribe to Women's Wear Daily, whose constituents are mostly male and in the fashion industry...
Donna Valentine, 28, lives with her nine-year-old daughter and four-year-old son in a town house in suburban Atlanta. Her income from child support and her job as a sales coordinator at a construction supply company total less than $500 a month. The town house rents for $300, and she needs someone to share the expense. "I just think this is the logical thing," said Donna about advertising for a male roommate. "Most of the women I know are dependent, jealous and competitive. I just prefer to have a man around." In San Francisco, Jim Cole...