Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people. Born of an old German Irish New York clan (the Skiddy is Irish, the von Stade German), he was brought up on Long Island, "the world immediately following the world of the Great Gatsby," as he describes it. His home town was Old Westbury, a New York suburb that he says "used to cut a lot of mustard in certain novels...
When three new patrolmen were hired in a Chicago suburb, the police chief had an uneasy feeling that there was something wrong with one of them. So he sent all three for evaluation to a private firm called Government Personnel Consultants in Oak Brook, Ill., where they were gone over by a psychologist and a lie-detector specialist. The chiefs instincts were correct. The man whom he had suspected confessed that only a week before he was hired he had committed rape. The case was on the town's list of unsolved crimes...
...thing we're most concerned about is brutality," says Strand. "What's this person going to do when he has a gun and a big car?" One sheriff's policeman in a northern Chicago suburb, seeking a transfer, supplied a frank -though hardly typical-answer. He would take a suspect for a drive in his unmarked car and demand a full confession. If the confession was not forthcoming, he said, he would push the suspect out of the car and report that he had tried to escape from custody-at 80 m.p.h. When the candidate admitted...
...Cambridge, Mass., Bobbi Baker ran a high-fashion dress shop near the Harvard University campus for six years but sold the building this year and moved to a quiet suburb. "One year we were trashed three times," she recalls bitterly. "In the first trashing, they piled up a lot of merchandise inside the store and set fire to it. Women's Lib picketed us and sprayed our windows with slogans. We got tired of being threatened with knives and being bullied...
Bleeping and flashing at the checkout counters of a Kroger store in the Cincinnati suburb of Kenwood, the new device looks and sounds like something from a sci-fi movie. In fact, it is an experimental RCA computer system designed to speed customers through the counters and minimize chances that they will be overcharged by tired, rushed cashiers...