Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police of suburban Yonkers, N.Y. (pop. 152,533) normally hand out an average of 82 traffic tickets a day. But last week, before the election, the cops eased off until the daily total dropped to a soothing average of only 27. There was a reason: the cops were hoping that the townspeople would vote them $500-a-year salary increases. The voters turned them down. On the following day, things were different: Yonkers' policemen issued an all-time record of 458 traffic summonses. The next day they plastered Yonkers' cars with 525. The day after that, despite howls...
Several months ago, the city government decided that the bordellos, scattered across six suburban boroughs, were blocking the development of new residential areas. In September, Secretary of Government Alfonso Restrepo Moreno framed a decree to resettle the girls in Barrio Antioquia, a factory workers' suburb proud of its four schools, its church, its library and civic center...
...diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around the world, or build an industrial empire. Some would like to own a small, independent business, but most want a good job with a big firm, and with it, a kind of suburban idyll...
More of the Same. In Tulsa, Okla., Claude Dowell, in jail for drunkenness, was released in time to help move his wife to their new home: the unused jail in suburban Garden City, which she had bought from the city...
...Election less than two weeks away, Labor, behind in the public opinion polls, was fighting hard, and with any weapon that came to hand. In the shadow of 900-year-old Norwich Cathedral, Labor M.P. John Paton thumped out a message to his constituents: "Tory policy means war." In suburban London, another Socialist denounced the Tory candidate: "Nothing but a bloody warmonger." Labor placards in grimy, bomb-battered Liverpool proclaimed: "A third Labor government or a third World...