Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disillusionment with Castro among his old supporters of the middle and upper classes is becoming obvious. Last week, when his picture appeared in a newsreel in Havana's well-to-do Miramar suburb, not a person applauded. In Washington, Castro's staunchest congressional friend, Oregon's Charles O. Porter, said: "I do not think Castro is a dictator yet, but I do see an ominous trend...
...sailor's son, Salemme was born in a Boston suburb, went to Manhattan at 18 and made it his own, educating himself at the public library. For a living he tried many menial jobs: he ran elevators, once worked as doorkeeper at the Guggenheim Museum. He long hesitated between painting and writing, failed to paint a picture that struck him as "a personal statement" until he was 32. In the eleven years of his life that remained, Salemme sold pictures to Manhattan's Metropolitan, Whitney and Modern museums. He was also commissioned to paint murals for posh Manhattan...
...well-off Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio saw no good reason last year to offer French and special science courses below the high-school level, as suggested by a band of determined parents. So the parents signed up a French teacher and two working scientists as instructors, charged pupils 50? a lesson, soon had a booming after-school program of their own (TIME, June...
...liquor store. But all the Younger dreams revolve around the $10,000 insurance money that widowed Mother is to receive. When the fateful check arrives, Mother asks little Travis to count the zeros, and then plunks down $3,500 in part payment for a house in the suburbs-an all-white suburb, as it happens. After a thwarted Walter takes to drink, and lets his pregnant wife consult an abortionist, Mother Younger gives him the other $6,500 to prove his mettle. Poor Walter promptly gets fleeced as his partner skips town. After that, the Youngers must fight to keep...
Threatened Allowance. Next day, as U.S. citizens and embassy personnel waited behind police guards in a La Paz suburb to learn whether they were to be evacuated in Panagra planes standing by on Peruvian airfields. Siles called for another demonstration. Flanked by La Paz's archbishop, the armed forces chief and his Cabinet, he stood on a palace balcony before a throng of 25,000 which included a brass band. Again he called for calm, and again he was disobeyed. Led by Trotskyite Boss Victor Villegas, 200 men stormed police guarding the embassy. The police fired tear-gas shells...