Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This lack of direction and local aid may be the reason for the lopsided distribution of the 23 acceptances, which reveals that with the exception of a few students from exclusive Main Line suburbia and one student from the city's "private" public school--Central High--almost every student coming to Harvard from Philadelphia will be from the same old traditional private schools. Not one student was admitted from the almost all-black inner-city schools or from any of the poor white Catholic schools...
Advertising is a world halfway be tween Disney and Dante. White Knights gallop through suburbia, housewives are absolved for ring around the collar, and stars and cowboys blissfully pull on their weeds, oblivious to the Surgeon Gener al's little memento mori in the corner -"dangerous to your health." The Fed eral Trade Commission, which has long labored to deflate the more extravagant pitches, last week published proposed guidelines to ensure that any celebrity shilling a product actually uses the thing if he or she claims...
...breaking down the crowds. These kids are Democrats by birth, all right, but they're not exactly the folks who manned McGovern buses or turn out for liberal caucuses in the suburbs--but that's okay, maybe when McGovern told America to come home he wasn't talking to suburbia anyway, even if that's partly who listened...
...fingers of Vietnamese who tried to claw their way into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air?some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries on her head and another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters profligately tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships, discarded like pop-top beer cans to make room...
...Idaho-based supermarket chain that he headed, A. & P. had been working slowly toward improving its image and sales. In each of the last five years it has closed between 200 and 400 stores, mostly small, marginal operations. Last year it opened 113 large stores, many of them in suburbia, and it now has 160 more in the planning stages. Scott is already talking of building a string of "superstores" that will contain drug departments and general merchandise sections along with the usual meat and potatoes. Says he: "We must move ahead to complete the transition that other chains completed...