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...gives? It's not Cambridge that gives, or, more precisely, it's not the part of Cambridge that surrounds Harvard, the richest part. It's the older, poorer sections, East Cambridge and especially North Cambridge. It's not Lincoln and Weston, even though that's where the money is. That money is going, if it's going anywhere but tax shelters and gold, to alma maters and politicians, not to poster children. Jerry's bucks--if the givers who make it on to television to present their checks are any indication--come mostly from people who have sort of made...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Boston: 267-2200 | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...older Scouts, this jamboree marks a rite of passage, a time to leave Scouting for other challenges: finishing high school, getting into college, finding a job. Chances are that they will be better prepared than many of their peers. One of those moving on is Ken McGagh, 17, of Weston, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: The Boy Scouts Encamp | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...press junket was for the opening of the new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts and it was being held for members, sustaining members, contributing members, patrons, benefactors, papal nuncios, photographers, brie-eaters, and people from Weston. The Intern and the Foreign Car Driver had to come in early through a back door and were talking to some models from Filene's who were hired, to stand perfectly still, like mannequins, throughout the new wing to advertise the latest fashions. One woman was wearing the latest in sweatsuit technology, complete with gamma ray sunglasses. The rest were attired...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Chivalry | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

Celebration plans were a good deal less rarefied out in the country. The Oxfordshire village of Weston-on-the-Green (pop. 300) scheduled an evening barbecue, dancing and lots of games, including at least two that are not recognized by the International Olympic Committee: a pillow fight on a greased pole laid across a swimming pool, and an English variation on the ancient Greek discus throw, in which the hurled object is a rubber Wellington boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...member of a board of education, I am sure I would be tarred, feathered and run out of office if my school system spent $3,600 a pupil and SAT results were averaging only 450-480. Obviously Weston's course offerings are so extensive that students can conveniently avoid the three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 6, 1981 | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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