Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials in Washington talked directly about the Central Intelligence Agency. It was obliquely referred to as "the pickle factory" or "our friends" or "across the river" or, more openly, "the agency" or "the company." When the CIA's $46 million headquarters opened along George Washington Memorial Parkway in suburban Langley, Va., in 1961, the deceptive highway sign said only BPR, for Bureau of Public Roads. Even Soviet KGB agents laughed at that. Finally the sign was changed to read: CIA. Now candor has gone further. For the first time, a photographer-from TIME-has been allowed to take some...
...explain why Harvard enjoys more recruiting success in some sports than others. Some sports, coaches note, need less of a hardsell than others, and therefore Harvard is able to get by with its low-key approach. Kevin Mackey, basketball coach at Don Bosco Technical High School in Boston, says "suburban sports" such as football and tennis are more likely to attract students who are interested in the long-term benefits of an Ivy League education. Other athletes need to be sold harder, he says: "Basketball, for instance, with few exceptions, is a game that the economically deprived now dominate...
...their elbows and break their Achilles' tendons, but runners, especially when they reach middle age, are creaky with bone spurs, shin splints, knee miseries and bruised heels. Despite layers of foam padding in their expensive Adidas, Puma, Nike and Tiger training shoes, half of the members of a suburban joggers' club will be out of action at any given time...
...California, Carter headed next to the studios of KNXT-TV for a locally televised reprise of his successful national call-in program. Sitting on an uncomfortably high stool, he fielded about 30 questions from a live studio audience of 200 and, via five TV cameras, from passers-by at suburban shopping centers, sidewalks and the U.C.L.A. campus. The toughest challenge came from Birdell Moore, a director of the Watts Health Foundation, who sought assurances that the Administration would appoint more blacks to top Government jobs. Said she: "We didn't play ticktacktoe with you in the election...
...When I look out through your windows," crooned Frank Sinatra, "you make me young again, even tho' I'm very old." OF Blue Eyes' rendition of / Write the Songs brought his audience to its feet last week at the Westchester Premier Theater in suburban Tarrytown, N.Y. So did Co-Star Dean Martin's antics...