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...woman they name as Amelia is Mrs. Guy Bolam, widow of a businessman and now living in Monroe Township, N.J. She emerged long enough last week to ridicule the book as a "poorly documented hoax." Hoax or not, the people's appetite for myth and mystery seems insatiable. Before her press conference was over, the woman from New Jersey had convinced many she was not Amelia Earhart. But some wondered whether she was really Mrs. Guy Bolam, either...
...perils of parenthood, four Detroit-area communities have added the risk of 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Mainly at the insistence of local police, Troy, West Bloomfield Township, Madison Heights and Pontiac have all recently enacted similar ordinances that hold parents responsible for preventing the sins of their children...
...Detroit area is currently undergoing a wave of public frustration at the inability of many parents to control the activities of their offspring. "We're constantly running into kids wandering in the streets after midnight and getting into trouble and raising hell," says Joseph Brennan, the West Bloomfield Township attorney. "Their parents don't know and don't care where they...
Another obstacle to opening up the suburbs is each township's power to block any increase in its population of poor people-black or white. The means is restrictive zoning laws. If a suburb does not want excessive development, for instance, it can pass large-lot (two-to five-acre) zoning requirements. This sends the developers to more leniently zoned neighboring communities-with disastrous effects on regional land...
...cause "minimal adverse impact on the natural environment." The oil companies have not yet decided what they might do about the law. Before last week's vote, the lobbyists pointed out that the bill would contradict the cherished Yankee tradition of local rule in every township. Maine's legislators nonetheless accepted it willingly. They no longer want to choose between payrolls and pickerel...