Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closest ally. After secret arrangements worked out by the Soviet Union through Swedish intermediaries, a black Mercedes with a Russian driver called for West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt in West Berlin, whisked him past East German checkpoints without even bothering to stop, and drove him to a suburban villa in East Berlin...
...change from Jay himself. A spare, cigar-smoking salesman, Jay took over an ailing company whose aging management-the three previous chiefs were 67, 68 and 66 when they took over-was losing ground to smaller chains. Jay moved A. & P. into long-term leases in suburban shopping centers and launched a sizable renovation and new construction program; he also tried to cut commodity costs with such facilities as the company's own recently opened, $25 million food-processing center in Horseheads...
...advised, "you should open another business." As his enterprise grew, Ahmanson more and more tended to run it from a distance. After doctors recommended thrice-daily swims when he suffered a heart attack eleven years ago, Ahmanson kept office hours close to the pool at his Tudor mansion in suburban Los Angeles. Over the past decade, he visited his Beverly Hills headquarters no more than a dozen times...
Mixed Bag. Another witness claimed that he had seen Sirhan at a suburban gun club twelve hours before the assassination. Contrary to range policy, which calls for a pause between shots, Sirhan snapped off up to 300 rounds in rapid-fire succession with an Iver Johnson .22-cal. revolver, the same type as that used in the killing. The Los Angeles County coroner testified that Senator Kennedy was struck with three bullets, rather than two as originally thought. The third landed in back of the right armpit, near the second. The shots had apparently been fired at point-blank range...
...area, with each house coded for 23 characteristics, including location, style, extra baths, price, and, on request, even the cost of adjacent property. Thus, when Mr. and Mrs. John Grima recently decided that what with their Great Dane, they had too much house and too little yard in their suburban residence in Westland, they consulted a broker subscribing to Realtron. Their specific requirements were checked off and fed into the computer; within five seconds, Realtron came back over the broker's Touch-Tone telephone with a list of houses answering their description (where none are available, the computer moves...