Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next step for Pincus and his guerrilla band of young suburban terrorists and ghetto scholarship dropouts is to kidnap ten of the nation's leading intellectuals. Here Lelchuk plays it safe by identifying them only as A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and Kovell. The plan is to "de-mandarinize" the elders at a secret New Hampshire hideout. This promising situation is not fulfilled with much imagination or wit. Pincus' fate is equally drab: prison, where he is reduced to suffering from a chronic earache...
...effects of Roth's order were immediate. Sales of suburban housing plummeted, and Detroit's housing starts continued to decline. Apparently parents were abandoning both the city and the suburbs and moving to rural areas to escape the turmoil of busing. Michigan Senator Robert Griffin proposed an antibusing amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and state legislators prohibited state gasoline-tax revenues from being used to pay for busing to integrated schools...
...state legislature is not likely to help either. It is dominated by rural and suburban interests who resent contributing taxes to Detroit's schools, particularly when its school tax rate is less than half that of some suburbs and far below the state average of 26 mills. Snaps Democrat William Copeland of suburban Wyandotte: "I don't see how you can expect me to tax my people for Detroit when they are already paying their fair share for the schools, and Detroit is only paying 15 mills...
...only 9,900 to 851,000, which is 174,900 below the record high of November 1968. Sunday sales went up only 1,500, to 1,453,000, or 150,500 below the peak figure. Advertising linage grew by 7.2%, but nearly half this increase was in cut-rate suburban editions. Overall, the showing was poor compared with the recovery made by most publishers from the mediocre showing...
...expensive transition from newsstand to home-delivery service. In town, the number of newsstands has dropped, from 10,632 ten years ago to 8,052 today. If the Times is to reach an ever more widely scattered readership, satellite printing plants must eventually be established. Competition from expanding suburban papers has also hurt. Newsday on Long Island, for instance, recently entered the Sunday field. National magazines offer metropolitan advertising editions at competitive rates, and broadcasting continues to vie for advertising...