Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blacks are moving steadily into better homes, and in some cases second homes. Housing barriers are gradually coming down, and whites are not always fleeing when blacks arrive. Insurance Agent Tom Allen, who bought a house in a largely white suburb of Seattle in 1971, recalls that "15 years ago, you couldn't beg, borrow or steal a place outside the central area even if you had the money. Today, if your money is green enough, you can live anywhere...
...Independence Hall that is known as Society Hill. Instead of sending in the bulldozers to flatten the decaying district, Philadelphia has cleared out only the grim factories and warehouses, while rebuilding the small, elegant 18th century town houses and creating what Inquirer Editor Eugene Roberts Jr. calls "a suburb right in the middle of the city." In the past three years 23 restaurants and bistros have opened in the neighborhood, catering to the 8,000 people-mostly young couples-that have moved back into the area...
...depending on his play this year for a shot at their third consecutive World Championship. But practical concerns were the last thing on Reggie Jackson's mind. Wearing a cotton tennis hat instead of a crash helmet, the A's slugger tore round the Oakland suburb of San Leandro on a motorcycle. As he bolted past a group of astonished friends, Jackson shouted, "I love it!" Then he disappeared back into the traffic. When he finally skidded to a stop, Jackson affectionately patted the borrowed Harley Davidson Sportster and announced, "You sure can raise hell down here...
Divorce has stalked Jackson since he was six and his parents split up. The second youngest of six children, Reggie was raised with two of his siblings by his father Martinez, a tailor in Wyncote, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. "He was a father during the day," recalls Jackson, "and a mother at night." Reggie traces his color blindness to the atmosphere at home. "My father didn't, and still doesn't know what color is," says Jackson. "I grew up with white kids, played ball with them, went home with them, and more than one time beat...
...canisters, finally the flames of the enemy's hideout leaping into the suddenly hushed twilight. But the reality was that Patty Hearst might well be in the flames, and the most stricken of all the electronic witnesses was the Hearst family, watching 350 miles away in a suburb of San Francisco...