Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government is counterbalanced by the Big Corporation, which has developed its own smothering bureaucracy. As W. H. Whyte sees the Organization Man, in the office he is engulfed by the team spirit, and in his suburb he is "imprisoned in brotherhood." The indictment, now seven years old, still has much validity, although Whyte admits that a tighter, more competitive economy has made for many sharper, less brotherly elbows. Besides, as automation displaces many straight clerical jobs, there is growing demand for skilled, creative people?and a growing willingness to take them as they are. There is a thriving washroom...
Chairman Chambers has simple tastes; he prefers gardening to golf, and used to subway to I.C.I, from London's well-to-do Finchley suburb until work pressures made the tube impractical. But there is nothing simple about his plans for I.C.I. The company is setting up operations to buy crude oil from British companies, remove valuable petrochemicals and sell the rest as gasoline or fuel oil. It is spreading out from simply supplying plastic to molding plastic products. It now sells 12,000 different items from alkali to nylon zippers and intends to expand its finished-product lines. Such...
...people who are for housing integration in theory do not care so much for it in practice-and many are the devices that have been used to avoid court bans against neighborhood covenants. Three years ago, Deerfield, 111., an upper-middle-class suburb of Chicago, thought up a new way to keep Negroes out of white areas. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, in effect, upheld Deerfield's device...
...captured 70% of the world market in the esoteric field of antenna testing equipment, last year raised its sales 38% to $3,100,000 and profits to $181,000. Scientific-Atlanta recently moved into a new $700,000 plant on 25 acres of prime land in an Atlanta suburb, is now planning an addition that will double the plant's size. The company owes its remarkable success to an ill wind that blew a lot of good. Its bank account was so low that it could not afford to buy an expensive piece of equipment that it needed...
...over Paris early one morning last week, a volley of rifle shots echoed through dank, grim Ivry Fort. Dead before the firing squad sank ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, convicted ringleader of last summer's abortive attempt to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart as he was motoring to his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises.* Though De Gaulle spared two other plotters, he presumably ordered the execution of Bastien-Thiry to discourage other terrorists from further assassination efforts on behalf of the dread Secret Army Organization...