Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's letter surprised Cardinal Cooke and embarrassed Rockefeller, who had backed a substitute bill permitting abortions up to 16 weeks after conception. The fury of pro-abortion forces ripped through Republican suburban strongholds and cut across party lines. In an effort to repair the damage, Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman lamely explained that the unsolicited letter was meant to be private and had been released only because of "sloppy staff work." Few were convinced...
...Editor Barney Walters had his car windshield smashed eleven times, but the paper was suddenly worth reading again. These days Head's papers even endorse Democrats from time to time, which would have been heresy under the Macys, but individual editors must check with him first. To capture suburban readers on weekends, a new Sunday edition was launched for Rockland County last year, and a Westchester County Sunday paper is in the advanced-planning stage...
...often the case when a strong-willed patriarch turns over power to his son, relations between the two have become strained. Maxey, an abstemious Southern Baptist who teaches Sunday school, had built Genesco into an empire of 105 operating divisions. Franklin, a member of what Nashville residents call their suburban "Belle Meade jet set," has been hard pressed to coordinate his father's motley acquisitions. At a six-hour board meeting last month the two argued with considerable heat...
...cells for upper-middle and high-income populations." The fortifications are already appearing across the land, most notably in California (where burglaries have increased by 149% in the past decade) and particularly in the southern part of the state, where Los Angeles County suffers the nation's highest suburban crime rate...
Since the mid-1960s, clusters of split-level houses have risen around Paris, looking much like suburban U.S. housing developments. Many have been built by two U.S. companies, Levitt & Sons and Kaufman & Broad. Now an heir of a famous French family is imitating the Levittown builders with great success. He is Maxime Breguet, 29, son of the founder of Breguet Aviation, which built, among many other planes, the Breguet 14 flown by the Lafayette escadrille in World...