Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues. The social questions that dominated the past two elections?law-and-order, welfare, and busing to integrate schools?were absent for the most part. Instead, inflation and the recession withered voters' attitudes toward Republican incumbents. Explains Emil Gutoski, a Republican precinct captain in Cicero, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of Chicago: "When people are hurting, they vote the opposition." Adds Political Demographer Ben Wattenberg: "In tunes of economic trouble, this country still regards the Democratic Party as the one that's more for the little guys...
...energy that heats the homes of the Paris suburb of Melun (pop. 42,000) comes from a highly unusual source: a natural underground reservoir of hot brackish water located more than a mile underneath the town. French engineers boast that the system for tapping geothermal energy is the first of its kind. What makes it unique, they say, is the fact that the water is piped back into the ground for reheating, which means that Melun's subterranean furnace could keep working almost indefinitely...
More Protest. Next day 5,000 Catholics were scheduled to march from the suburb of Gia Dinh to central Saigon, where they would join with other protesting groups. None of them made it. In Gia Dinh, would-be paraders awoke to discover their district surrounded by a police line. They tried to march anyway. In the melee, police smashed Father Thanh's glasses and bloodied his face. By week's end scores more had been injured. Eleven opposition legislators were beaten and one was arrested. The Viet Nam Press Club was raided by police, who rounded...
...many U.S. cities, local legislation is simply inadequate. Chicago law requires a resident to secure a city permit to buy a gun, and these permits are hard to come by. But in virtually every Chicago suburb, a gun buyer need present only an easily acquired $5 state form called a Firearm Owners Identification Card, as well as proof of identity. "What's the use in having a city law," asks Chicago's Deputy Police Superintendent John Killackey, "when you can walk 20 feet across the city limits and buy an arsenal...
Gorski, who is in his mid-thirties, worked on the Minneapolis police force before becoming chief of police in Golden Valley, a small, upper-middle-class white suburb of Minneapolis...