Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hamburg lawyer who had been his boyhood friend. She was bearing a bouquet of red roses. So it was that the chairman of the Dresdener Bank, West Germany's second largest, stopped packing long enough to receive Albrecht at his 30-room villa in the wealthy Frankfurt suburb of Oberursel. With her through the iron gate came another young woman and a young man in a gray flannel suit...
...season's troubles started when Frank Collin, self-styled Fuhrer of a tiny Chicago-based Nazi splinter group called the National Socialist Party of America, announced plans for a May 1 parade through Skokie, a heavily Jewish suburb north of Chicago. Some 7,000 survivors of World War II Nazi concentration camps live in the village. Skokie authorities swiftly banned the demonstration, and militant Jewish Defense League spokesmen promised to keep the Nazi marchers out with force...
Despite a long career at the top of his sport, Rod Carew is the least-known star in baseball's galaxy. He works his wonders in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, cities owned-in the national mind, if not in reality-by Fran Tarkenton, Mary Tyler Moore and blizzards. Carew's feats have gone virtually unnoticed by the national press. Without argument the outstanding hitter of his generation, he has appeared on the cover of the Sporting News-baseball's Bible-only three times in more than a decade. In an era of jocks selling...
Private Deeds. The Carews live modestly in the upper-middle-class suburb of Golden Valley; their indulgences are owning a Porsche and a Mercedes. A baby is due in November, but rather than move to a larger house (which they could easily afford), they have chosen to add on to their comfortable, unpretentious home. Says Marilynn: "I don't think that there is ever going to be a time when I'm not going to look for Hi-C fruit drink...
...passed a resolution endorsing Bryant's position. But in Illinois a similar motion was withdrawn after being sarcastically attacked by a number of legislators. Said Representative Harold D. Byers: "Next we'll be passing a resolution congratulating the Nazis who want to march through Skokie [a Chicago suburb]." In Massachusetts the first state law prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals is expected to pass the house after summer recess; it passed in the senate last month by one vote. Next week homosexual leaders will meet in Washington with representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters...