Word: darien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commuter town of Darien, Conn., has recently felt much abused. Feature writers portrayed it as a horrible example of suburban depravity in the wake of the trial of 19-year-old Michael V. Smith, who got drunk at a couple of debutante parties, drove a station wagon into a tree, and killed a 17-year-old companion. All the parent-hosts were haled into court under a controversial law against giving a drink to anyone under 21. Then, to make matters worse, a star prosecution witness at the trial, William Alpert, 20, was arrested for the possession of marijuana...
...level canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific without need of locks. One is a 95-mile route in northwest Colombia, another a 168-mile route slicing through Costa Rica and Nicaragua: the remaining two are in Panama itself-one running 60 miles through the southern Darien wilderness and the other, the present 51-mile waterway, which would need considerable widening and deepening to eliminate the locks. Johnson gave no hint as to which route the U.S. preferred, saying only, "I have asked the Secretary of State to begin discussions immediately with all the governments concerned...
Nobody was happy about the new element that had been added to the situation: the commuter community of Darien seemed to the outside world like more of a Peyton Place than ever (Darien real-estate men report indications that sales of houses are down), and dark doubts are shadowing the residents themselves. "Parents are more suspicious of their kids," said one Darien minister last week...
Part of New York. Darien's head shakers shook their heads still harder, murmuring among themselves about all the new people crowding in-supervisors from nearby factories, onthemove executives transferred to New York from all over the country-and about the dangers of letting one's children go to public school and take up with youngsters whose parents one does not know and is not likely...
...Darien's high school is a good one, and the mingling there of children from varied social stratifications is generally thought to be working out well for all concerned. The trouble is that in a school of 1,018 pupils so near New York there is bound to be a fast set of hard-shell hippies like Alpert who seem utterly glamorous to more sheltered types. As one Darien mother sighed last week: "It's hopeless. We're just nothing but a part of New York-that...