Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Bjork, 27, an insurance broker, and his wife Stephanie, 24, searched for three months for a house on Chicago's suburban North Shore, where Stephanie grew up, but found that "the minimum for a bungalow is $70,000 to $80,000." They have now about decided to buy a bigger, older house in Deerfield, Ill, for $71,000. Stephanie's parents will chip in part of the $14,000 down payment, and monthly payments for principal, interest and taxes alone will come to $560. Laments Stephanie: "Those payments are not most of our budget?they...
Patrick Burns, 28, and his wife Dawn, 25, shopped for four months for a suburban house but settled for a $33,000 home in a Cleveland neighborhood they do not especially like. The monthly mortgage payments of $299 will be such a strain that they have decided to add no more children to their present two. Besides that, says Dawn, "we budgeted the food shopping so that no snacks, no beer and especially no McDonald's are on the list." Even so, they could not meet the payments if Patrick did not collect frequent overtime...
...have turned a profit for the first time this past season, pushed into the black by the sport's growing audience. No longer confined solely to ethnic groups nostalgic for the old country, U.S. soccer crowds now include large numbers of women (40% of fans are female) and suburban, upper-middle-class executives and professionals...
...dozens of other cities, mass busing may never come. The Supreme Court has backed away from the concept of cross-district busing ever since 1974, when it ruled that Detroit need not bus suburban students into downtown schools unless it could be proved that both city and suburban officials willfully sought to segregate their schools. Several alternatives to mass busing have also appeared and received the blessing of Congress, which has acted strongly over the past few years to curtail the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's power to order busing. Among the options: so-called magnet...
...scripts; when he does, his tastes run to popular bestsellers like James Clavell's Shogun. Though he now has the use of a company limo, he and Cathy, an attractive woman with short, dark hair, live in most ways like Middle Americans. Their apartment is furnished like a suburban split-level, and when they buy paintings, they try them out first on the walls, just to make sure that they like the colors. Freddie is vague about the artists' names...