Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patrick Trainer, aged ten, thought that it was time for an increase in his weekly allowance of $1. But when he finally got up enough courage to ask for $1.50 last week, his father Thomas, a suburban Philadelphia photographer, pointed out that under President Nixon's new program all wages were frozen?even allowances. Dissatisfied with the answer, young Patrick wrote to a local newspaper, which carried his problem to the men at the Office of Emergency Preparedness. Their ruling: allowances can be raised "only if the receiver s productivity or responsibility increases." Patrick promptly offered to start washing...
Ironically, the momentary result of Nixon's announcement was to fire up foreign-car sales. Customers poured into the showrooms of Toyota, Volkswagen and other import dealers, quickly buying models that would soon become relatively more expensive. "People were still shopping at 11 o'clock at night," said suburban St. Louis Datsun Dealer Ed DeBrecht. Dealers of U.S. cars, on the other hand, were left wondering how to get rid of a huge inventory of 1,900,000 '71 model cars. With prices on the '72 models expected to be almost identical (less excise), the soon-to-be-outdated...
With Relish. Wallace replied shrewdly. He decreed that a 15-year-old suburban Birmingham white student, Pamela Davis, should be assigned by the Jefferson County school board to the predominantly white Minor High School. Under a federal court order, Pamela had been assigned to Westfield High School, 22 miles from her home and 95% black. One day later, Wallace pressed the issue further by proclaiming his intention to reopen one of the 140 all-black or largely black schools that had been shut down in compliance with a court ruling. "My order transcends the orders of the court," he snapped...
Though National Guardsmen have not been needed to quell their disorders, in the past three years U.S. high schools have become far more frequently troubled than college campuses ever were. Almost two-thirds of the nation's high schools?expensive new suburban complexes as well as the blackboard jungles of inner cities?have suffered disruptions. The incidents range from peaceful sit-ins protesting censorship of the student paper to savage riots between blacks and whites. Last week a fresh report from one of the worst battlefields, New York City, suggested that schools have themselves partly to blame...
...lead story, and we've found in the second edition that they have picked up the story that we have dropped and dropped the story that we have picked up. It's fantastic." On a recent day, Today's first edition front-paged HUNT TWO IN SUBURBAN CRIME SPREE, while the Daily News ran the story for a paltry six paragraphs on page 5. By the time the third edition appeared, the Daily News story was front-paged at three times the original length, while Today had shortened its earlier screamer and dropped it back to page...