Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been six slayings. The other two, which police at first did not think fit the pattern, took place in February, when Vincent Moretti, 52, a Mob fence and loan collector, and a friend, Donald Renno, 31, were found stabbed to death in a car parked behind a tavern in suburban Stickney. Almost all of Moretti's ribs had been broken. According to police, Moretti was killed because he had not told Mob bosses when the gang asked him to fence the loot. On the day of his death, Moretti had discovered that his car's power steering had been tampered...
Normally about this time of year, conversation at suburban Detroit's Bloomfield Hills Country Club starts rotating around to how strong the autumn selling season will be. Last week Topic A at the favorite watering hole of the auto industry's top leaders was quite different. Just as they have for weeks, auto executives were buzzing with nonstop speculation as to the motives for Chairman Henry Ford II's firing last month of Lee Iacocca as Ford Motor Co. president...
...nation. Montgomery County, Md., has a per capita income about 50% above the national average, thanks largely to the battalions of Washington bureaucrats who live there. Even though these residents pay local real estate taxes, Montgomery County receives $6 million a year in Impact Aid. Similarly, Washington's suburban Fairfax County, Va., where Langley High School has a country club atmosphere, receives $13 million annually...
...quiet hospital in suburban New Jersey, 13 patients die mysteriously during 1965 and 1966. Ten years later, a reporter for the New York Times, M.A. (for Myron Abba) Farber, reveals that mostly empty vials of a powerful and potentially lethal drug called curare were found in the locker of a certain "Doctor X." The state begins to investigate. What some experts believe to be traces of curare are found in exhumed bodies, and a grand jury indicts the man Farber, in his stories, had carefully called only Doctor X?Surgeon Mario Jascalevich?for allegedly murdering five patients...
...facts of Perkins' life are plain to the point of austerity. The offspring of two old New England families, Perkins had a genteel suburban childhood in New Jersey, spent four years at Harvard, tried newspaper reporting for a while and then joined Scribner's. He married and fathered five daughters. His eccentricities were notable chiefly because of their rarity. He liked to wear a hat in the office, pulled down so that his ears stuck forward. He doodled pictures that were ostensibly of Napoleon; around the prominent eyes and the high-bridged nose, they looked like self-portraits...