Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because the Matswanists are of his own tribe-the Lari. Since the Congo recently became self-governing, there have been frequent-clashes between Matswanists and other Lari tribesmen. The Matswanists were stoned; their homes were burned. Driven out of their own countryside, 2,500 Matswanist refugees squatted in a suburb of the capital of Brazzaville and refused to be evacuated...
...result, says Driver Jack Brabham, 32, "is a car that's safer and easier to race." As others tell it, the driver makes the package look good. The son of a greengrocer in a Sydney suburb, Brabham studied engineering, during World War II was a flight mechanic in the Royal Australian Air Force. Brabham was lured into the pits by a driving friend who wanted a good mechanic on hand, and soon found himself behind the wheel, although he confesses: "I was frightened to death...
...test came in the just-integrated Washington suburb of Alexandria (pop. 62,000). where Lawyer Armistead L. Boothe, 51, Virginia-born and Oxford-educated, held his senate seat against the combined forces of Virginia-style citizens' councils and all that the Byrd forces could throw against him. Byrd and Son Harry Jr., 44-year-old state senator, personally made calls and wrote letters for the candidacy of their cousin, Marshall J. Beverley, whose savage (for Virginia) campaign was managed by Harry Jr.'s brother-in-law, James M. Thomson. Almond maintained the fiction that he was not involved...
Boosted and backed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a young lawyer who lives in a split-level home in a New York City suburb won election last week as speaker of the New York state assembly, ending the traditional hold (69 years) of powerful upstate G.O.P. forces on the job. Popular, hard-working Winner Joseph F. Carlino, 42, is the son of an Italian politician who quit Tammany
...absence of their preferred prey, ravenous British foxes turned to moles, rats, blackberries and garbage cans. They lost the stamina they used to build up chasing rabbits, no longer led hunters off on the long, steady chases of old. Instead, they developed a tendency to head for the nearest suburb, leaving hunters embarrassedly clattering through backyards and garbage dumps. Another curious side effect: British buzzards, deprived of protein once obtained from rabbit carrion, suffered loss of fertility...