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...wedge pledge. Says Jan Richards, a housewife from Beverly Hills: "It's been my salvation. When a woman nears 50, she can't keep the long hair. This way, my hair looks neat, but I don't look like a schoolgirl." Mimi Meltzer, a housewife from Winnetka, Ill., won instant attention-from women and men-with her wedge. "Even the parking lot attendant tested the style after I had it cut," she says. "He asked me to shake my head to see how my hair looked afterwards...
...Chicago real estate man, Rumsfeld attended the New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., gaining renown as a 150-lb. state wrestling champion. He won a scholarship to Princeton, married his high school sweetheart Joyce Pierson, and from 1954 to 1957 was a Navy pilot. Leaving the service as a lieutenant (j.g.), he became a congressional aide-and struck up a friendship with Michigan Representative Jerry Ford. In 1962 Rumsfeld began his own political career by winning the safe Republican congressional seat on Chicago's wealthy North Shore...
...campaign to regulate the sale of handguns more closely has consistently been thwarted by the argument that limiting a person's right to buy a weapon is an unconstitutional abridgment of his liberties. Now Susan Sullivan, a housewife in Winnetka, Ill., is trying a new and imaginative approach to the problem that might be summed up: If you can't ban the gun, ban the bullet...
...candidates have filed for 400 seats at the next state constitutional convention; ten years ago, there were so few candidates that 82 people won election with write-in candidacies. At last count 14 candidates were running for Congress from Ohio's 23rd district, near Cleveland. In Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago, town meetings that were once sparsely attended are now overflowing with people. "The cliche is that good government begins at home," says Tom Donohue, chairman of the Winnetka nonpartisan caucus committee. "I think people are beginning to realize that that is true...
Pushing through supermarket aisles thronged with anxious shoppers last week. Housewife Katie Wolff of Winnetka, Ill., an affluent Chicago suburb, was exasperated. "Nixon has lost control of things," she said. "Prices are so high we haven't had pork chops or steak in a month." Mrs. Joan Sheets of Los Angeles had the same complaint: "They tell us to eat less expensively, but just try finding a cheaper cut of meat. Even bologna is $1.30 a pound...