Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killed by a black man. George Wallace was allegedly shot by a follower-though Arthur Bremer was evidently bird-dogging other candidates with aimless hostility. The list is endless: personal peril now climbs aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, hides in a locked apart ment-or in a suburban shopping center as it did recently when a janitor gunned down a handful of strollers in North Carolina. If the earth is unsafe the air bristles with danger. Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe the brief rumor...
...fifth premise, however, Armor found "strong evidence that middle-class suburban prep schools have an important 'channeling' effect not found in black schools . . . that black students attending such schools may have doors opened for them that are closed to students attending predominantly black schools...
Slow Boil. Now 33 and divorced from a white bass player, Roberta lives in a fashionable part of suburban Alexandria, Va., with her mother, a full-time maid, four dogs, seven cats, one piano and one swimming pool, and worries about keeping her music heavy and her figure light. She also runs the Washington-based Roberta Flack Enterprises, which includes a publishing linn, a talent agency and a production company...
...scale, on the other hand, starts at $2.40 per hour for jobs in Cambridge and rises to $2.80 per hour for suburban work. HSA bartenders are guaranteed four hours pay on each job and experienced liquor servers earn an additional 25 cents per hour over the regular wage...
Died. Wallace S. Sayre, 66, urbanologist and early proponent of regional planning; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A spokesman for city government reform since the 1930s, Sayre regarded the creation of combined city-and-suburban planning units as the salvation of metropolitan centers. Though a prominent academician, Sayre never forgot the practical lessons in hard-nosed politics that he received as a civil service commissioner under New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The 1960 study, Governing New York City, that he wrote with a colleague, Herbert Kaufman, became a classic how-to handbook for big-city mayors...