Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plan. Dick Dilworth is rated as the Negro's good friend (30% of City Hall employees are Negroes). But he has an unorthodox answer to the city's problem: more segregation. His plan: induce white families in the city to stay put in their neighborhoods, urge white suburban families to move back to the city. (He has built his own $164,000 home in what formerly was a run-down area...
...religion; each step and gesture . . . may be loaded with metaphysical meaning." The inner meaning in the new vitality Protestantism is recovering in the suburbs is yet to be appreciated by you. We hopefully await the day when a reporter from TIME will do as much for the natives in suburban American churches as he does for the Asian natives. RUSSELL J. BECKER ROBERT A. EDGAR THEOPHILUS RINGSMUTH CLINTON M. RITCHIE...
...before joining General Electric. In 1939 Johnson left G.E., went to Schick, Inc. under Cordiner. He returned to G.E. in 1944 after a two-year stint with the War Production Board, became a vice president in 1948. Today, with his wife Ellen and daughter Kristine, 11, Johnson lives in suburban Stamford, Conn., commutes to a 41st-floor office in Manhattan, spends spare moments painting oils and watercolors...
Rocketeer Oberth's work had inspired many another young German rocket bug, most of them flirting dangerously with destruction as they pursued their untried hobby. Von Braun joined a small group firing rockets from an abandoned ammunition dump in suburban Berlin. When he left for a term at Zurich's Institute of Technology, he continued his experiments, built a contraption that spun mice in simulation of rocket takeoffs. Afterward, his roommate, an American medical student, dissected the mice, announced to Von Braun that the high acceleration caused cerebral hemorrhages. Their landlady had another kind of announcement: any more...
Call the Cops! Afterward, Kansas City called again. Louise Eisenhower wanted the funeral service in Kansas City, the burial in suburban Hartsdale, N.Y. The President asked Milton to come down from Baltimore, join him in a one-day trip to Kansas City on the Columbine...