Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodestoned. In Providence, ten months after he gave himself up at police headquarters, turned in a utility truck he had stolen while on a binge in a Boston suburb, Ed R. Silva took on another skinful, showed up at the station with a taxicab he had liberated in Boston, offered an explanation: "I like the Providence cops...
...without humor. "There are no funny stories about Gomulka," says Peasant Leader Stanislaw Banczyk. He is essentially a lonely man. He and his wife Zofia, a member of an old Russian Bolshevik family (purged by Stalin), live quietly in a tiny apartment in the Warsaw suburb of Praga, have no social life. A 26-year-old son, an engineer, lives in the same house. Gomulka's sole recreation: walking his dog around the block...
...there first. Said he: "I have orders from the Central Committee to bring you to Warsaw." Replied Gomulka calmly: "If somebody from the Central Committee wants to see me, let him come here." But he went quietly with the guard to Miedzieszyn, a Warsaw suburb, where he and his wife were held under arrest in separate cottages without seeing each other for four years. Most people thought him dead...
...Virginia's cultists, the Gray plan had a fatal defect: it offered local option on desegregation, and the Washington suburb of Arlington, for one, announced that it would integrate. Urged on by the hard core of his political following, Harry Byrd decreed against Virginia's white children being thus mixed in school (although many of them play unaffectedly with Negro youngsters from babyhood). At Byrd's bidding, Governor Stanley called a special legislative session and presented it with 23 bills, setting up a "defense in depth" against desegregation. As passed by the legislature, the program ensured...
Splurge on Swans. After he was demobilized in England in 1948. Sadovy had a thin time trying to work as a photographer. In a grimy London suburb, he managed to survive on two shillings (28?) a day during a 15-month period when he earned only ?1 ($2.80) by selling an animal picture to Photography...