Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elderly gentleman with the erect military bearing who strides through the Athens suburb of Ekali on fine mornings is the new Premier of Greece: Field Marshal Alexander Papagos. An Alsatian dog, Fritz, trots by his side, but gone are the two carloads of soldiers who accompanied him everywhere when he was leading the fight against the Communist guerrillas three years...
...Orleans police last week rounded up the latest in teen-age gangs: a band of "Storm Troopers" who for weeks had annoyed the upper-bracket suburb of Metairie by smashing street lights, throwing rocks through train windows, and general hell-raising. They carried mimeographed membership cards, in English and crude German, adorned with swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler. In their headquarters, an abandoned store, police found 4,000 rounds of 22-caliber ammunition, some shotgun shells, 36 knives, a rifle and two air rifles. The group's Führer was 15. Said he: "I have information that...
Empty Stores. In an upper-level Cleveland suburb, 28 new houses completed last spring still stood vacant at $38,000, although the builder had sold others by trimming prices. In Detroit, housing permits this year were 40% fewer than last year, and Portland, Ore. Realtor Charles Paine reported that his home market was "just marking time." Sacramento, Calif, and southeastern Florida, where buyers were snapping up medium-priced homes as fast as they were built, were exceptions...
Last week a Neapolitan street railway official phoned the police to report the distressing theft of a half-ton of trolley tracks and overhead trolley wire from an abandoned line in a Naples suburb. Naples' police rounded up the thieves (they had worked for three weeks in the bright Neapolitan sunshine ripping up the rails, even recruiting hired laborers to help), and wearily set to work on a new chore-patrolling the miles of trolley track still unstolen...
...Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, a Jewish religious school has opened for the avowed purpose of eliminating Zionist and Israeli influences from the lives of Jewish children in the U.S. The School for Judaism (enrollment: 115) is the first full-scale school to be run by the American Council for Judaism, an organization of U.S. Jews who hold that the loyalty urged on all Jews by the State of Israel is debasing Judaism from a universal world religion into a "nationalist faith" based on "the primacy of the Jewish people...