Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opposed President. Last week he could no longer contain himself. On a CBS radio show, Capitol Cloakroom, the Senator accused the Nixon Administration of making a "cold, calculated political decision" to give blacks short shrift. It is "a suburban as well as a Southern strategy," said Brooke, and he predicted that Nixon and his advisers would "continue along the road they took during the campaign." Recalling a favorite Nixon campaign slogan, he added: "President Nixon said he wanted to bring us together, but everything he has done so far appears to be designed to push us further apart...
...situation" that all of them were not talking about was the possible sale of the nation's largest suburban daily to the publishing giant of the West. Informal meetings between Newsday's Guggenheim and Norman Chandler, chairman of the executive committee of the Times Mirror Co. (which publishes the Los Angeles Times), began three weeks ago. "The Captain," ailing at 79, is anxious to divest himself of the paper, and Chandler is anxious to buy, to the extent of a reported $75 million worth of Times Mirror stock. The rub: Minority Stockholders Joseph Albright (Newsday's Washington...
Meanwhile in New York, where so much of the ugly action takes place, Correspondent Karsten Prager interviewed ten youngsters at Odyssey House where ex-addicts encourage newcomers as young as twelve to kick the habit. John Austin spent a chilling evening in suburban Westchester County, N.Y., with middle-class high school students who talked freely about police officers, teachers and even doctors who know but don't care about the kids' problem. Other expertise was supplied by Douglas Gasner, whose experience as TIME'S Medicine reporter was invaluable for the box on symptoms parents should watch...
...unwillingness of middle-or upper-class parents to acknowledge the idea that their son or daughter is seriously hooked on heroin. The customary last resorts in personal crisis are undependable. Parents tend to trust doctors implicitly, for example. But one 17-year-old girl from New York's suburban Westchester County arrived in a New York hospital for a checkup with fresh needle marks all over her arm. "The doctors kidded me about it," she says. "They said, 'Oh, oh, we know what you are doing.' " Yet they never told her parents...
Uncertain Future. Last week, as Denny the Dupe played hide-and-seek with creditors who are trying to evict him from his suburban Detroit home for nonpayment of seven months' rent, his future in baseball was uncertain. With interests in a paint company, an air freight service and a television-store franchise, he claims a yearly income of $200,000; included is his $90,000 Tiger salary, the checks for which are being sent to a Detroit bank to pay off an outstanding loan...