Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aureliano himself had had enough of aurelianadas for the moment; four days later he turned up at the Uruguayan embassy in the nearby suburb of Miramar and asked for asylum. Although it was the second time he had done this (the first was in 1952), Batista ordered that he be granted safe-conduct from the country...
...Crane, tangles with the local opium-smuggling ring and is blown up with a hand grenade. In the meantime, Crane receives more bad news: the com pany's teak contract has not been renewed; everyone must go home in 21 months. Home for Crane means a dreary London suburb arid a nagging, neurotic wife. Rather than face that, he takes on a risky assignment in Indo-China: to drag out a French company's teak supply just ahead of the advancing Viet Minh. The Communists move faster than Crane ; they settle his case with bullets...
Mireille is left to soak in the tub for 48 hours, then driven to a Paris suburb and dumped into a pond. A bit later, when Ravinel returns to discover his wife's "suicide." her body has disappeared...
...became a deputy to the National Assembly. But his real vocation slid casually into his life with a young couple and a baby who had just been evicted and had nowhere to go. Abbé Pierre bedded them down in his ramshackle house in a run-down Paris suburb. In no time, the word got around that the "abbé with the beard" was a soft touch. His house became headquarters for the homeless...
...Paramount's Forever Female, starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden, was not very good. But the TV audience was not very large either; it consisted only of those who could crowd around some 70 specially prepared TV sets in Palm Springs, Calif., a far-flung (90 miles away) suburb of Hollywood. What brought the film colony's biggest names on the run was the fact that the Palm Springs experiment was the official inauguration of Telemeter, a coin-box subscription TV. system that is partly owned by Paramount. Like its rivals, Ski-atron and Phonevision (TIME...