Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wittier Playwright J. B. Priestley is on the stage. The TV adaptation of Laburnum Grove, under the title Counterfeit, came around slowly to Priestley's engaging idea. A kindly English mediocrity (Boris Karloff) wants nothing more in the world than to live a quiet life in a London suburb, devoting his spare time to raising tomatoes. But since he is incapable of earning an honest penny, he tries "the other thing." His business, as he describes it, is inflation. To get more money in circulation, he manufactures it, and is so expert that for years he baffles Scotland Yard...
...Park Forest, a suburb south of Chicago which is growing so rapidly that even local mothers call it "Fertile Acres," not even the oldtimers (residents of four years or more) could remember so bitter a fuss. It began simply as an earnest effort to cope with the town's overcrowded schools. But by last week Park Forest was hard aboil with scalding controversy of an entirely different sort. The cause, as the suburb's Reporter put it, was that "the fury of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the heat generated by a parent...
...line was Thomas Wentzel, 59, a skilled woodworker whose grandfather was a German harness maker married to a Colored woman. Wentzel's skin is the light tan of a man who has spent his lifetime working in the sun. But though he lives in a Colored suburb and is married to a Colored woman, Thomas Wentzel was reclassified as a native. "What can I do?" he asked hopelessly. The answer: very little...
...extent of his fortune is still a jealously guarded secret, and the incredible diversity of his financial interests was such that probably nobody but Gulbenkian himself had more than an approximate notion of them. Even the vital statistics of his life are obscured by stubborn legend. Born in a suburb of Constantinople, less than a decade after the huge oil reserves of Russia were first tapped, Gulbenkian was said to have been smuggled into England by his father at the age of three, wrapped, like Cleopatra, in a rug. Likelier history suggests that he came later and in more orthodox...
...hundreds of parents in Glenview, Ill., a growing (pop. 10,000) suburb of Chicago, the letter from the new Citizens School Committee was not exactly a surprise, but it was alarming all the same. "There is a crisis in the Glenview schools," wrote the committee. "It is not something that is going to happen. It is here now." Unless the town took action, the schools would go on double shifts, and many children might not be able to get into a nearby school at all. "And this," said the committee, "is only the beginning...