Word: babylon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Malachowsky, an eighth-grader in West Babylon, N.Y., has been an avid builder of model rockets and airplanes since he was eight years old. When the price of his favorite enamel went from 15? to 19? a bottle, he realized that his $2-a-week allowance would not absorb the shock. So he sent a complaint to the Price Commission, charging that the Tester Corp. of Rockford, Ill., had raised the list price of its "Pla Enamel" well over 25%. "This is only $.04," he wrote, "but being only 12¾ years old, this is a big strain...
...Bladenburg, Md.; John M. Fuchs of North House and Silver Spring. Md.; Beth Goldman of Eliot House and Blue Field Hills, Mich.; Dawn Ho of Dunster House and Cleveland Heights. Ohio: Sandra J. Kopit of Currier House and Silver Spring. Md.; Patricia E. Lynch of Lowell House and West Babylon. N.Y.; Anne MacKinnon of Adams House and Louisville. Ky.; Debra L. Raskin of Eliot House and Miami. Fla.; Ernestine N. Rathborne of Lowell House and Mill Neck. N.Y.; Marybeth Shinn of North House and New York, N.Y.; Karen L. Taylor of North House and Alexandria. Va.; and. Sally E. Yard...
Most of the 14,000 inhabitants, however, tend to agree with Village Architect Erwin Heinle that their temporary home is a "Babylon supplied with all the facilities, the distractions, the amenities to make the visitors forget that they are cooped up in a golden ghetto." The most striking features of the village are the huge color-coordinated "media pipes" that meander throughout the compound at a height of 15 feet; their colors not only lead athletes to their proper buildings but convey power, water and taped music. The starkly modern design and easy atmosphere of the village suggest a kind...
...opposed to organizing to fight Babylon, you people sit around and babble," Jackson said. "You sit around and say 'the man, the man, the man' and you do not realize...
...book is sort of an instant history of the Jews, from Abraham to Moshe Dayan. It is pretty damned skylarky for a people that wept beside the waters of Babylon and have undergone agonies of tribulation throughout their existence. The music is homogenized rock international, and the dances are United Nations hora. The girls are smashingly good-looking, probably the most fetching chorus line we are likely to see all season. If any one of them opts to stay in the U.S., she can make some deserving swain a very happy...