Word: metropolitanism
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...capital's metropolitan area now is populated by an estimated 12 million souls-one-fifth of the nation-and more people flock to it every day. At least 500,000 campesinos arrive each year looking for work, then settle into makeshift hovels only marginally better than the villages they left behind. Once one of the hemisphere's most beautiful cities, the capital is now one of the most blighted. Clouds of smoke from burning garbage, tortilla shops and public bathhouses-fortified by the rarefied oxygen at 7,347 ft.-make lung congestion almost epidemic and blot...
...album of "Flowers." It's not hard to see why Sackler, who is on intimate terms with these paintings, finds these his favorites. Sackler-the-connoisseur is a mysterious Howard Hughes-like figure. But his reputation and influence in Chinese art scholarship in the U.S. is such that the Metropolitan Museum's art department answers the phone: "Hello, Sackler enclave...
Hozack and Horton were teammates for a season on a midget league team in the Southside Athletic Club Conference, one of four Metropolitan conferences. Dea, who lives on the other side of town in a hockey hotbed by the name of Rio Terrace, played against his current linemates while a member of the Knights of Columbus spurs, another midget team...
...form a league known as the New Jersey-New York "7" must also have sensed a basketball boom in the offing; and the instant rivalries springing up on both sides of the Hudson only accelerated the trend. The N.J.-N.Y. "7" includes not only Columbia but all the best Metropolitan area teams--Seton Hall, Manhattan, LIU, Fordham, a Rutgers squad that went 31-0 last year, Lou Carneseca's St. John's five, and a Princeton team that already has upset Notre Dame...
...Metropolitan District Commission, the agency that will build and maintain the Kennedy Park, recently solicited bids for the construction, but has yet to select a contractor...