Word: neighborhoods
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Sent to live with his grandmother, Adnan was brought up in sunny Izmir (Smyrna) on the Aegean coast, in a manner befitting a young gentleman of property. His English bike was the best in his fashionable neighborhood, his pocket money ample, and his clothes impeccable. At Izmir's American International College, a Congregational mission school that he entered at 13, Adnan showed himself an exceptionally good student and a born athlete. He was center forward on the school soccer team, an outstanding swimmer, and a first-class billiards player whose popularity was enhanced by the fact that...
What makes Sagan sprint is the realization that metropolitan dailies today are leaving an ever-widening void for small neighborhood papers to fill (TIME, Dec. 2). In no city in the U.S. is this more true than in sprawling Chicago, whose press is frequently apathetic to corruption. Says Press Baronet Sagan: "A neighborhood paper has the local, personal function, the bread-and-butter job, of telling who married whom-and you'd be surprised how many people care. The second function is concern for civic affairs. A city is a terribly complicated animal. It's even harder...
...about the dullest part of the show. It bounces to life in Jack Warden's amusing, likable performance as a fight manager, most notably when he goes fully clothed, on business, to a steam room. The show turns sprightly once again when a bunch of neighborhood tykes warble Uh-Huh, Oh Yeah. It tingles pleasantly when Barbara McNair and Lonnie Sattin sing Fair Warning and reprise All of These and More. And it looks nice, thanks to William and Jean Eckart's sets...
...Backward Robeson County has three-way segregation in schools.) Despite the gentle protests of their elders, and of community officials around the county, many of the Lumbees calmly began to polish squirrel rifles and knives. Rumors ran that ammunition and other arms were selling at a fast clip in neighborhood shops. When the Klan sent around handbills announcing a rally in a field near Maxton, the Indians fixed their zero hour...
...Christmas toys for underprivileged children (gross take from ticket sale: "over $2"). Soon afterward an uncle noticed that as Margie sat on a hassock she looked crooked, and her right shoulder blade protruded. The family doctor prescribed a corset, which soon broke and was discarded. Eventually a neighborhood hospital referred the Bilottis to one of the few places in Manhattan that specialize in treating conditions like Margie's, the Hospital for Special Surgery...