Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like shooting bottles off a barnyard fence, the gunslingers on NBC's top-rated Bonanza have for several seasons systematically picked off every show offered in the opposing time slots. Five months ago, CBS rushed in a pair of suburban slickers, and to the industry's surprise, they knocked Bonanza out of the No. 1 slot and made the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour the most popular new TV show of the season...
...overcrowded. Wright ordered the school board to bus Negro children to fill vacancies in the white schools beginning next fall. He asked the board to consider establishing educational parks, to pair schools for "maximum" integration, and to "anticipate the possibility of" a student-exchange program with predominantly white suburban school districts. Such cooperation, of course, would require mass bussing, which is both expensive and inconvenient. Conceding that absolute racial balance is impossible, Wright stressed that the immediate need was for more money to improve the quality of education in schools that remain segregated...
Latest & Last. She was a successful fashion designer under her maiden name, Elaine Terry. He was an $18,000-a-year chief prosecutor for the Los Angeles district attorney, in charge of the D.A.'s suburban Downey office. Between them, they were earning $40,000 a year. They were a good-looking, high-style couple. Elaine, with her hazel eyes, red hair and trim, 114-lb. figure, was still, at 43, a woman woman-watchers watched. Jack, 6 ft. 1 in. and handsome, with a lively, inquiring mind, was a 45-year-old social lion...
...time he spends "doing whatever I feel mostly like doing." Prowling the art galleries and fishing are two favorite relaxations: his penthouse apartment on Manhattan's East Side is decorated with paintings and drawings by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Vlaminck, and his twelve-room home in suburban Connecticut-built around a converted, 100-year-old schoolhouse-has a fresh-water pond containing a private stock of trout...
Such innovations have necessarily put the heat on the bank's perennial rival, the Chase, which has yet to match First National City's steps into traveler's checks and travel-and-entertainment credit cards, has far fewer suburban and overseas branches. Part of Wriston's franchise will be to keep the ideas coming-within limits. He still remembers Moore's whimsical advice: "Be so brave as to scare the Chase, but never be so brave as to scare...