Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accommodation for the city. The task was considerably complicated by Beame's being caught in a political crossfire between Democratic Governor Hugh Carey and State Senate Republican Leader Warren Anderson, who tied any increase in state aid and taxing power to increased school aid for his suburban constituency...
Some top entertainers shy away from the publicity they had so eagerly sought while they were still climbing the ladder. Not so Elton John. Showing Correspondent David DeVoss about the rock star's suburban London home, John's mother gestured to a wall hung with masterpieces. Between a Picasso painting and several Rembrandt etchings was a novelty mirror carrying the slash TIME Man of the Year. Said she: "You can see the story means...
...able to spend all my money," he sighs, but he gives it a good shot. Like many pop stars, he is wildly generous with those who have demonstrated their loyalty to him (see box page 40). Not that he stints on himself; he bops constantly from his home in suburban London to his home in Los Angeles, with regular stopovers at the Caribou Ranch in Colorado, where he likes to record, and another sort of ranch in Scottsdale, Ariz. There he concentrates on his tennis, a game chubby little boys can feel ridiculous playing but that the superstar plays with...
Through Chicago Mafia Chieftain Sam Giancana, who was murdered last week in his suburban Chicago home, and his lieutenant, John Roselli, the CIA recruited a gangster reputed to be in Castro's entourage of bullyboys. In late September Bissell and Edwards informed Director Allen Dulles of the results of their tentative explorations. Bissell maintains that his discussion with Dulles was in the most general terms; he was merely encouraged to test the ground further...
Giant Rolls. The A.F.P. editor died of stomach and leg injuries suffered when a bomb exploded just after 1 a.m. in the doorway of his suburban Paris apartment-a bomb that French police are certain was intended for the other Bernard Cabanes. Minutes after the explosion, an anonymous caller told a local radio station, "We have just blasted the home of Cabanes of Le Parisien Libéré." The newspaper, largest morning daily in France, has been wracked since March by periodic strikes of a heavily Communist printers' union, the Fédération du Livre...