Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller himself headed for his wife's family home in a Main Line Philadelphia suburb, grinningly refusing to expand on his "command decision." Why had he done it? One possible reason was that the latest batch of polls from New Hampshire showed him running a dismal 15% to Nixon's 75%, with the rest of the vote scattered over other candidates. Also, he was about to head into a new session with his state legislature, and some upstate Republicans, solid for Nixon, had threatened to give Rockefeller embarrassing trouble at home (adding to the circumstance that Tom Dewey...
...Deerfield, Ill., a velvet-lapel commuter suburb of Chicago, the citizenry took extraordinary measures to keep twelve Negro families out of town. Ostensibly, the voters endorsed a $550,000 bond issue which would buy a 22-acre home-development site in Deerfield and convert it into a public park. Actually, there was no need for such a park, or any desire for one-until Deerfield learned that Developer Morris Milgram planned to sell twelve of the 51 houses (at prices of $30,000 and up) to Negro families (TIME, Dec. 7). Panicking in their fear of declining land values...