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...guzzling regular cars at stop lights or highway ramps for a free ride. Another Californian, Mick McMick, urged that Los Angeles be put on "a revolving 'lazy Susan' for easy access all around." John Cody of Lynnfield, Mass., proposed a suction-tube system to "zip" commuters from suburbia to their city offices. Ed Hunter of Dayton, Ohio, felt that giant slingshots hi the suburbs could catapult commuters into outsized baseball catcher's mitts downtown: "Use baby oil to keep the mitt soft," he advised...
...worked his way through law school by moonlighting as a bandleader. In 1935 he married his comely singer-emcee Harriet Hilliard; in their radio adventures, which began in 1944, he was the cheerful, slightly bemused pipe-and-slippers family man, she the sweetly understanding helpmate steering nun through suburbia's little traumas. Sons David and Ricky joined the show in 1949, further boosting its popularity and helping to start the Nelsons' marathon...
This lack of direction and local aid may be the reason for the lopsided distribution of the 23 acceptances, which reveals that with the exception of a few students from exclusive Main Line suburbia and one student from the city's "private" public school--Central High--almost every student coming to Harvard from Philadelphia will be from the same old traditional private schools. Not one student was admitted from the almost all-black inner-city schools or from any of the poor white Catholic schools...
Advertising is a world halfway be tween Disney and Dante. White Knights gallop through suburbia, housewives are absolved for ring around the collar, and stars and cowboys blissfully pull on their weeds, oblivious to the Surgeon Gener al's little memento mori in the corner -"dangerous to your health." The Fed eral Trade Commission, which has long labored to deflate the more extravagant pitches, last week published proposed guidelines to ensure that any celebrity shilling a product actually uses the thing if he or she claims...
...breaking down the crowds. These kids are Democrats by birth, all right, but they're not exactly the folks who manned McGovern buses or turn out for liberal caucuses in the suburbs--but that's okay, maybe when McGovern told America to come home he wasn't talking to suburbia anyway, even if that's partly who listened...