Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firehouses of Norman Rockwell's bucolic America, firemen passed the hours between alarms playing checkers and showing off the polished brass and bright red trucks to wide-eyed young visitors. But for the volunteer firemen of Genoa, Texas, in suburban Houston, that was not enough. In the past three years, eight bored Genoa firemen have set about 40 fires in abandoned buildings and grass fields. As soon as the blazes were going, the arsonists would dash back to the firehouse and rush off to put out their own fires...
...clock was striking 9 p.m., signaling the end of Bill Morin's 13-hour shift behind the Red Owl grocery store's meat counter. He was looking forward to a quiet evening in his suburban home. But as soon as he stepped into his house, his anxious wife told him: "Dan's wife called. Dan's gone, and he's got the paycheck." The pair quickly jumped into their car and conducted a door-to-door, bar-to-bar search through Minneapolis' toughest section. They finally found Dan having a drink at a party...
...suburban Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Troppi, already the parents of seven, became apprehensive about the possibility of another pregnancy. Mrs. Troppi obtained a prescription for Norinyl, Syntex Laboratories' contraceptive pill, and her nervousness vanished. But her calm mood, she claimed, was the result of her druggist's mistake: he had given her Nardil, a tranquilizer, and Mrs. Troppi later gave birth to a son. If the Troppis can prove negligence, a Michigan court of appeals ruled, a lower court can then order the druggist to pay damages. In computing the amount, the appeals bench said...
Fast Redo. Shedd has been widely regarded as one of the nation's most progressive and innovative school officials. His basic problem in Philadelphia, as one suburban colleague puts it, was that he "tried to redo fast a school system that had just been through 30 years of inactivity." Shedd graduated from the University of Maine and has a doctorate in education from Harvard. He first came to the attention of politicians and educators in the early 1960s, when, as superintendent in Englewood, N.J., he successfully cooled the racial tensions that flared over school integration. In 1967 he took...
...fact, not many girls end up in private albums. Says Morgan: "Most guys take the pictures or film out the door and ditch them in the street." Some of the models are equally furtive. As one girl recalls: "There was a beautiful, rich, suburban teen-ager who came down one night...