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...Noise from Winnetka. On the surface, the chances of success for that initiative did not appear high last week. No sooner had Rogers returned from his swing through the Middle East than Jordan's King Hussein disinterred an old Arab vow "not to give up one inch of Arab land." Sadat, on a visit to the Suez front early in the week, placated army officers by telling them that the chances of peace were no more than 1 in 100. Some Israelis were likening Rogers' visit to a 1940s popular song: "Big noise blew in from Winnetka...
...Harris catalogue, this is the only one that comes close to fitting the stereotypical conception. (And of the four categories, this is the only one in which a majority of residents even confessed to living in a suburb.) Even so, in towns of this type-New Canaan, Conn., Winnetka, Ill., and Atherton, Calif.-less than half of the breadwinners work in large cities. The Affluent Bedroom communities are tops in income, home ownership, proportion of professionals and executives. They contain increasing numbers of wealthy retired individuals, and they are 98% white, 61% Protestant, 3% Jewish. They are Republican...
...time around here," he says, "there were the early bloomers as politicians from Winnetka and Oak Park. You could get elected president of the freshman class with only five votes if you really wanted. But as soon as the class graduates, it falls into the hands of the alumni association, the leaders of which have got to be from Boston, and have got to be involved with money. So you end up with the State Street or insurance types almost, by definition after all the express purpose of the 25th reunion is to get money from the fat cats...
...Winnetka, a prosperous suburb of Chicago, Mrs. John A. F. Wendt reads the Chicago Tribune, has a son working in Viet Nam for the State Department, and views the home front with horror: "This great country, with the great people who are in it, to have these things happen, you get the feeling it was all planned, all stirred up. I definitely think this Negro rioting is tied into this Communist thing...
...Father, the Bigot. Despite such evidence, the discovery that their own children are smoking marijuana still leaves most parents incredulous. "Pot is like syph," says a senior at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. "Parents can't conceive of it until it hits them in the face." When it does hit them, they scarcely know what to do. For, unlike sex and alcohol, drugs played no part in their own rites of passage. Wails one anguished Manhattan mother: "None of us knows anything about it. It's so new." One Detroit moth er turned her daughter...