Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national committees of both parties gave most of their attention to the race in Ohio's First District, which encompasses the eastern half of Cincinnati and suburban Hamilton County. The district is mostly white collar and prosperous; in 1972 it gave 70.3% of the vote to Republican William J. Keating, who resigned late last year. To succeed him, both parties nominated well-known and longtime city councilmen: Democrat Thomas Luken, 49, a lawyer and former Assistant U.S. Attorney; and Republican Willis Gradison Jr., 45, a wealthy stockbroker. Both had served as mayor-in Cincinnati, a post filled by vote...
...after the G.O.P. lost Vice President Gerald Ford's old district in Michigan, the worried Republican National Committee dispatched its director of political activities, Henry Edward (Eddie) Mahe, to take over Gradison's faltering campaign. Mahe coached the candidate on how to make the most of white suburban parents' fears about school busing. One Gradison TV spot described it as "a cruel experiment with our children." Mahe staged campaign appearances for Gradison by Vice President Ford, Senators Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio, James Buckley of New York and Charles Percy of Illinois and former Attorney General Elliot...
...latest production - a musical based on an 1845 play, Fashion; or Life in New York, by Anna Cora Mowatt, who was America's first woman playwright. So this is the 19th century Americana of Mrs. Mowatt's quaint, forgotten classic refracted through the 20th century Americana of suburban matrons in amateur theatricals. Except that the players in Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater are all totally professional...
...dealer visiting Magritte at his unremarkable suburban house in Brussels was met by the surrealist in his normal business-suit attire. At tea in the parlor, the visitor dropped something, bent down to pick it up, and experienced an agonizing kick in the backside. When he spun round, he saw Magritte imperturbably stirring his cup as though nothing whatever had happened. As in life...
...economy out of it. The Board's more liberal members grant that the slide has been aggravated by the energy crisis. By now, they say, the gasoline shortage has seriously weakened consumer demand for cars; for housing, especially in distant suburbs; and for the merchandise sold by suburban stores that are reachable only by auto. So, they argue, the slump is taking on the characteristics of an old-fashioned recession caused mainly by inadequate buying. Heller and Okun fear that oil and gasoline price jumps will divert by $15 billion to $20 billion the amount of money that consumers...