Word: fredericksburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wylie, 71, writer, former television and advertising executive and father of Janice Wylie, a 21-year-old Newsweek copy girl whose murder in 1963 in an affluent Manhattan neighborhood received wide publicity and led to a famous mistaken identity trial; by his own hand, of a gunshot wound; in Fredericksburg, Va. Although Wylie, the younger brother of the late novelist Philip Wylie, wrote a number of mediocre novels and other works, none of his literary efforts brought him as much public exposure as the overwhelming amount of misfortune he encountered. Five years after the murder of his daughter, Wylie lost...
JUDITH A. LIPP Fredericksburg...
...first, it seemed like a worthy and public-spirited idea. The Fredericksburg, Va., realty office of Shannon & Luchs set aside $2,200 and offered to pay 10 for each can found littering the local roadsides. Alas, the firm had underestimated the fervor of the environmental movement. Last week a parking lot adjacent to the realty office was buried under a mountain of cans, all put into plastic bags. Ten ft. high and 190 ft. in diameter, the pile contained 585,156 cans brought in before the offer expired and another 100,000 or so that came in after the deadline...
...holding a big benefit dance or carnival later this month. To the disappointment of ardent environmentalists, all of the cans will eventually be buried as landfill; earlier plans to recycle the aluminum containers had to be abandoned. Reason: insufficient manpower to separate them from the rest of Fredericksburg's immense mountain of cans...
...Bethesda, Md. (40 miles from the stadium). The hotel, which is equipped with an extra-high antenna to pick up Baltimore stations, offered a gridiron buffet of lox, whitefish and onion rolls ($2.25) and a post-game open bar ($3). Fans at the Sheraton Motor Inn in Fredericksburg, Va., known for such victory celebrations as nude swim-ins, this time observed the Redskins' decisive 16-3 win over the Green Bay Packers with a nice orderly tumult. "When the Skins win," says Jim Graham, manager of the Fredericksburg Holiday Inn, "that's when we have trouble with...