Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suburban Victory. The man who beat Mrs. Hicks in her mayoral race, Kevin White, lost his own city last week, but carried the suburbs and won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. White was in a four-way fray with State Senate President Maurice Donahue, former Lieutenant Governor Francis Bellotti and Kenneth O'Donnell, one of John Kennedy's closest political aides. O'Donnell ran a poor fourth, thereby holding to the losing pattern among former J.F.K. associates who run for office. White faces an uphill fight against incumbent Republican Francis Sargent...
...influx intensified the uneasy cultural interface in the Square. Panhandlers and Panthers abounded in front of Holyoke Center and on the MBTA island, and, according to Cambridge merchants, the suburban shoppers with the really big money began finding other places to do their shopping...
...gangs make most of their money in the protection rackets, collecting "contributions" or "taxes" from merchants and shopkeepers, and hiring themselves out as strongarm debt collectors. Last month, armed with grenades, they invaded a suburban police station and forced police to release a group of "protected" prostitutes. Other veterans are less sophisticated. Some simply go into restaurants, enjoy an expensive meal and then refuse to pay; sometimes they even ask the proprietor for a loan. Others build shacks on other people's property and demand a fee to tear them down...
...attractive to young people," says David Pynchon, headmaster of Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. "Today's youth is not accepting the kind of authority that the school represents." Adds Pomfret Headmaster Joseph K. Milnor Jr.: "They opt for Mom, Pop, a girl and television." Indeed, places in city and suburban private day schools are much in demand. The power of sex appeal is perhaps best demonstrated by Rosemary Hall, which is one of the few girls' boarding schools that has not felt the decline in applications this year. The school is moving to Wallingford, Conn., home of all-male...
Courts in Front. Ending overt discriminatory practices in existing and planned accommodations-the goal of most open-housing statutes-is primarily an enforcement problem. Another, more subtle obstacle is the exclusionary suburban zoning ordinance. It often has the effect of blocking construction of low-and moderate-cost housing. Unlike blatant Jim Crow barriers, zoning makes a difficult legal target. Its legitimate purpose-to allow a community to plan its land use rationally-has been upheld as proper and constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court...