Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Columbia's suburban community of Maillardville, 16 miles southeast of Vancouver, two Roman Catholic parochial schools shut their doors last week and turned their 800 pupils over to the local public-school system. The Catholics had been turned down in their request for free transportation, and the lockout was their reply...
...turmoil of the family brownstone, Barbara and her sister were transplanted to the quiet of a house in Millburn, N.J. (pop. 13,400). Partly because of Belle's retiring nature and partly because of their newly straitened circumstances, their life was cloistered even for life in a suburban town...
...Katz brothers now leave much of the retailing details to Ike's son Earl, 43. Nevertheless, says Mike, now 64: "When I'm going out of a store, I can generally count on seeing Ike on his way in." Currently expanding into suburban areas, the Katz brothers have a slogan ready for their new stores: "Buyways off Highways." But Ike, now 72, will never drop his favorite motto for retailing success: "Give 'em a free ride...
...Case a Babe. Since the war, the coffee break has been written into union contracts and authorized by state labor laws. No truly modern office building is designed without its grid of coffee dispensaries. Small-town and suburban housewives have adopted "morning coffee" as an excuse to go neighboring after the beds are made, the baby is changed and the breakfast dishes washed. In the Pacific Northwest, youths make their first date with a new girl an invitation for coffee. "Gives the guy a chance to case the babe, cheap," explained a young blade from Walla Walla...
...paintings, on exhibition in Manhattan last week, are unassuming oil sketches of things Bouché likes to look at: old farmhouses, city streets and hallways, suburban backyards, antique wooden toys scattered on a table, shop fronts, roadside stands, and now & then a pretty girl. Quiet scenes lovingly painted in quiet colors, they utterly lack the shock value most moderns strive for. Instead of shocking, Bouché seduces...