Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Murphy was released in a suburban Atlanta Ramada Inn and ordered to keep wearing his blindfold until he could no longer hear the sounds of the kidnapers' cars. Then he phoned home. Arriving at his front door minutes later in the glare of TV lights, Murphy said shakily: "It's very important that at this moment they [the kidnapers] understand that they have not won a real victory. They have frightened me very badly and they have frightened my family. But they should know that they won't get the country turned around this way." Asked...
Within six hours of Murphy's return, FBI agents swooped in on a modest suburban home in Lilburn, Ga., 15 miles from Atlanta, and arrested William A.H. Williams, 33, and his wife Betty Ruth, 26, on kidnap charges. Williams, who described himself as a building contractor, had previously been convicted on forgery and stolen-car charges. Last week his bail was set at $1 million and his wife's at $500,000. Inside the Williams home, police found stacks of bills - all or almost all of the $700,000. Murphy positively identified Williams as the man who came...
...industrious, no-nonsense community in America's heartland. Republican VanderLaan, 43, had won six elections to the state senate, where he is majority leader. Democrat VanderVeen, 52, a lawyer, noted that he "comes from a long line of Democrats who have lost." He had been elected to the suburban East Grand Rapids school board in 1969, but he lost by a landslide the only big race he ever entered - to Congressman Ford...
Here in Cambridge and Boston, conscientious consumers should remember to patronize the stores (The Coop, J. August, Almy's) that voluntarily joined the boycott. They should try to avoid those large downtown and suburban department stores (Filene's, Jordan Marsh, Milton's) that callously refused to support the Chicano laborers and had Amalgamated picketers arrested and harrassed when they publicized the struggle to weekend shoppers...
Frank Kelley, attorney general of Michigan and counsel for the Michigan State Board of Education, which opposes a metropolitan solution, argued that because only the Detroit School Board, and none of the suburban boards, has been guilty of violations, a remedy for the resulting segregation could not involve suburban districts...