Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of college-campus pipe bombings had left Detroit police clueless and frustrated. Then a neatly typed letter turned up, naming Eileen Margaret Orr, 20, and Mark Peter Stevens, 21, as the bombers; more explosives, the letter said, could be found in the Orr suburban home. Last week police arrested the pair, charged them with a bombing at Oakland Community College, and reported finding some 20 sticks of dynamite concealed in a closet of the house...
After graduation, he married an art teacher who was the heiress to the fortune of the inventor of the little red wagon. He tried some courses at the Business School, some accounting jobs, and a stint at housewifery before becoming a teacher in a suburban high school. "A Harvard degree is never good if you stay in one place too long," he cautions. "Rather than becoming dully competent to a task you should play the role of the well-mannered but restless whiz...
...week went a long way toward hindering the movement of blacks into white suburbs. It ruled that residents of a community may block public housing projects by voting them down. Although a disproportionate share of the poor are black, and public housing is often the only kind of decent suburban housing blacks can afford, the court saw nothing wrong with antihousing referendums. Mere economic discrimination, the court ruled in effect, is not unconstitutional...
What has two eyes, perches on 22-ft. poles, can see half a mile in nearly total darkness, throws fear into lawbreakers and costs $47,000? The answer, known to everyone in suburban Mount Vernon, N.Y., is an ingenious new television system that untiringly watches over the town's main shopping street, relaying what it sees to police headquarters...
...times as much tax from buildings as from the site value of land. This low taxation of land re wards speculators, who can easily afford to keep property off the market until urban growth forces its price up enough for a fat profit. A costly consequence of this is "suburban sprawl," much of which is caused by subdivision developers moving farther out of town to find cheaper land while bypassing idle acreage closer to the city...