Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walking along Northwest Washington's Jackson Place, heading to and from his office. He is nearly always grim-visaged, facing forward and alone. Few of his once close associates have seen much of him lately, though Agnew continues to play an occasional golf or tennis match at two suburban Washington clubs. Friends say he is devoting much of his time to the novel he is writing for Playboy Press. There was no fanfare, no farewell, when Agnew surrendered his last Government link. Four secretaries worked the last day, and at closing time they simply locked up and left...
...Benjamin A. Gilman is a young, popular freshman congressman from New York's half rural, half suburban, and very conservative 26th district. Lying on the northern fringes of New York City, the district is composed of fugitives from the city's turmoil and those who fear it from a distance. Together they have established a conservative bastion to prevent its spread north. In 1970 the district elected a leftwing Democrat, John G. Dow '27, only because his Republican opponent was indicted for income tax evasion towards the end of the campaign. But in 1972, Gilman took advantage of Nixon...
...auto salesman's conference room, a curious form of commercial ritual begins: haggling over the price. An alert salesman senses the moment of truth when prospective buyers wish to be alone to discuss the price, and he discreetly leaves the room. The FBI, in raids on two suburban Baltimore dealerships, has discovered that such private dickering is sometimes not so private. In at least two Maryland dealerships, unsuspecting buyers have talked about their bottom-line position in illegally bugged conference rooms...
...badge. But the majority of skaters have been lured by the garish, ultramodern rinks that are becoming as much a part of the American scene as drive-in movies or McDonald's. Since 1970 more than 400 rinks have opened-150 last year alone-many of them in suburban shopping centers in such heartland cities as Chicago, Omaha and Columbus. Moreover, gasoline shortages, which will keep many Americans from driving to lakes and beaches this summer, are expected to keep the rink business rolling higher than ever...
...wedding on wheels. Some rent out the entire skating floor on uncrowded week nights to local community groups and private clubs for an average cost of $250. One night a busload of priests and nuns from the Chicago diocese arrived to kick up their heels and habits at a suburban rink. They pirouetted jauntily round the floor, and before long had dubbed themselves-what else-the "holy rollers...