Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mathis, better known to friends and customers as Nat the Bush Doctor. Nat began his career with Afros, later switched to plaiting feathers and other ornaments into the hair of Washington's black entertainers. Recently, Nat began giving plait jobs to fad-conscious white housewives in suburban Reston...
...fights back in hatred of the alien atmosphere at Madison, a white student goes home wounded. Every time a white fist hits a black jaw, another "For Sale" sign crops up. And every time a place like Madison turns from a school into a prison, enrollment swells in another suburban school...
...group of suburban Baptists, with whom I rode a chartered bus to and from the Crusade one night, liked that sight. They told me so. They liked the idea that Atlanta had progressed--taking them along with it--but they didn't like the accompanying threats. They didn't like the fact that blacks were running their school system, that a black was the front runner in the mayor's race. They didn't like the proposal for a housing project in their neighborhood, which would bring down their property value. But they were going to rededicate their lives...
...highways have begun honking angrily at drivers who exceed the new lower speed limits. On Interstate 75 near Atlanta last week, one car displayed a sign on its left-side door for every car passing him to see: "You too, 50 m.p.h." Jim Hunt, a filling-station operator in suburban Atlanta, has developed his own righteous way of rationing. He gives drivers of sub-compact cars all the gasoline they want, but limits larger autos to a dollar's worth. Says Hunt: "I give them just enough to get them off the road. Those big gas gulpers...
...deposed Papadopoulos remained under house arrest, presumably at his suburban villa. But the ouster of the much hated former President did not mean that Greece was on the way back to democracy. In a nationally televised speech, the new civilian Premier, U.S.-educated Adamandios Androutsopoulos, announced that the junta would rule indefinitely by decree, and would not hold the national elections that Papadopoulos had promised for some time in 1974. "We will bring our mission to its conclusion," he declared, "without interruptions, timetables or surprises...