Word: metropolitanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outbreak of World War II. In 1949 she married Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an Italian construction tycoon twice her age. Meneghini sold his business, put Maria on her famous diet and became her manager. He showered her with clusters of jewelry for each new role she sang. But at the Metropolitan Opera, he insisted on receiving her salary in cash before each night's performance. This so enraged Met General Manager Rudolf Bing that he paid in five-dollar bills, "to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry...
...Washington, D.C., examined arrest and conviction records compiled by police in the course of a single year. The statistics, which were supported by similar findings in five other urban areas-Los Angeles and San Diego counties, Baltimore, Detroit and Chicago-told an abysmal story. In 1974 Washington's metropolitan police made more than 17,000 arrests for felonies and serious misdemeanors by adults. Yet prosecutors found more than half the cases so flimsy they refused to press charges. Judges tossed out an additional 8%, and in 6% there was no action at all because the defendants simply vanished...
...Americans have come to look on a home of their own?and a pretty big, detached, single-family house at that?as not just a desire but a need and almost a right. They are being unrealistic. To shelter the entire nation in spaced-out, single-family houses near metropolitan centers would be a physical impossibility; to house even a substantial portion that way is turning out to be enormously expensive...
What then can be done to cool down housing inflation? Nothing spectacular, as long as Americans remain so enamored of the single-family house. The supply of land within reasonable, or even unreasonable, commuting distance of metropolitan centers cannot readily be increased. Still, some steps could be taken to alleviate, if not end, the trouble...
...girl friend in The Front-admires the strong-willed wife of King Akhenaten. "I like to play women who want something for themselves and will fight for it," says Andrea. To pre pare for her role, she spent hours in the Egyptian collection at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art and is now reading Herodotus and other historians. Says Andrea: "The well-to-do women had at least three handmaidens and went through elaborate preparations early in the day. They also shaved their heads, which I have no intention of doing...