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...kickbacks because other California cities have grown so fast that they will get bigger portions from the tax pot. New York City figures to lose $1,350,000 in state tax income because it slipped by 242,000 to 7,650,000. Sign of the times: most of what New York loses will go to suburban Nassau and Suffolk counties, whose combined count has more than doubled in the past decade...
With the new constitution authorized, Kwak, Huh and the Assembly will be automatically out of office on July 29. Then elections will be held to choose South Korea's new leaders. It was the most encouraging sign yet that South Korea was recovering from its post-revolutionary jag of vengeance and mutual acrimony, which at one time had brought the country perilously close to chaos...
...summer's afternoon nine years ago, a Cadillac careened at high speed past a stop sign onto a highway in suburban Philadelphia, directly in the path of a huge trailer truck. The driver of the car-Albert Coombs Barnes, multimillionaire, eccentric and owner of one of the world's greatest collections of modern art-died instantly. When the news of Barnes's violent end reached him, Henri Marceau, curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, had an awed comment: "How natural." Long before his death, Albert Barnes's fabulous collection of French and American modern...
...those suburbs where families, income, education and interest are homogenized, suburbanites sometimes wonder whether their children are cocooned from the rest of the world. "A child out here sees virtually no sign of wealth and no sign of poverty," says Suburbanite Alan Rosenthal (Washington's Rock Creek Palisades). "It gives him a tendency to think that everyone else lives just the way he does." Suburbanite-Author Robert Paul ("Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing.") Smith (New York City's Scarsdale), complains that Scarsdale is "just like a Deanna Durbin movie: all clean and unreal...
...suburbs is no more or less prevalent than it is in the cities. But an adventuresome male commuter does have one advantage: he can pursue a clandestine affair easily in the city merely by notifying his suburban wife that he is being kept at the office. One sign of the times is that Private Detective Milton Thompson of suburban Kansas City is also a marriage counselor, has handled 300 marital cases in the past three years. The usual story: "The husband plays on the Missouri side of the river before he gets out here. Maybe it's just...