Word: suburb
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Actually, race seems not to be a major issue. Maurice C. McNeill, 36, a native of North Carolina, started teaching biology six years ago at the senior high school in Baldwin (pop. 35,000), a Long Island suburb, 35 minutes from New York. One of his pupils was Susan Schaffner, 16, who had racked up a succession of A's and B's until McNeill gave her a C+ in sophomore biology. To upgrade the mediocre mark in hopes of improving her chances to enter a good college, Susan this summer took a repeat course in biology. While...
Rosenthal has conducted similar experiments at elementary schools in a Massachusetts suburb and a middleclass town in Ohio. Although Analysis of these two tests has not been completed, the results have not clearly corroborated the Spruce School findings...
...died the day after Archerd paid a visit to his hospital sickbed. The motive, if any, is unknown. The second-and certainly the weirdest case-was that of bride No. 4, Zella, 48, who died in 1956. Two months after their marriage, Archerd told police in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina, two burglars entered their house. With guns in one hand, hypodermic needles in the other, said Archerd, they injected both himself and Zella with a drug, then made off with $500 in cash, overlooking jewelry and other valuables. Archerd was unaffected by the unsought medication, but his wife...
...provided the plot for Antonioni's hit movie. Another describes the sordid death of a musician who strongly resembles the late Charlie ("Bird") Parker. Perhaps the most affecting of all is the title story, which explores the daydreams and posturings of three lonely sisters in an Argentine suburb...
...turning it out commercially during World War I. In 1929, in Paris, he opened a plant named Danone for his son Daniel, and called its product "the Dessert of Happy Digestion." Success was modest until the mid-1950s, when Danone caught the public fancy. In 1958, in the Paris suburb of Plessis-Robinson, Danone opened the world's largest yogurt factory, where 350 workers are able to turn out 1,600,000 pots (211,000 quarts) of yogurt a day, seven times as much as the largest U.S. manufacturer...