Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grubby streets of Pasay City, a suburb of Manila, a most unusual group of men gathered last week. They were members of an obscure political sect called Lapiang Malaya (Freedom Movement), and they were armed with long bolo knives and dressed in peculiar blue uniforms with red and yellow capes. At the command of their leader, an old (eightyish) fanatic named Valentin de los Santos, they had come up from their homes in the paddy fields of southern Luzon. Their mission: to march on the presidential palace in Manila and overthrow the government...
Another case led to a secret room, hollowed out of the hillside behind the garage of a $45,000 home in a Westchester County suburb, north of New York City. The items confiscated there included half a pail of capsules marked "SKF" (for Smith Kline & French, the makers of Dexedrine), a small barrel of counterfeit Seconals, paper bags containing yellow tablets imprinted "Ciba," bags of waterlogged, unidentified tablets, and a 110-lb. drum marked "Made in Italy" and containing a dubious white powder. Added together these items gave the FDA an unusually persuasive collection of evidence...
...King's first reaction was that toughs from the Communist-front Lambrakis youth movement had gone on a rampage, were perhaps even attempting a coup. Instinctively, he ordered the guards doubled at Tatoi, telephoned his mother, Queen Frederika, in the nearby Athenian suburb of Psychiko, to gather all the royal kin she could locate into her house. He then telephoned officers in his palace in Athens to send out a force to rescue Arnaoutis and protect the Queen Mother. He ordered the Navy to put to sea as many ships as possible...
QUIET. AGNON is WRITING, reads a street sign in Talpioth, a fir-shaded suburb of Jerusalem. It honors the solitude of Israel's most beloved and most retiring author, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, who until recently was almost unknown in the West. Lately, a steady tide of visitors has disobeyed the sign and trespassed on the austere hospitality of his house, which offers only a few folding chairs to guests. Israel counts Agnon a cultural hero, studies his work in its schools, and has given him a hero's place since he returned from Stockholm last December with...
...righthander from the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga, was drafted out of Nichols School by the Tigers, but didn't think twice before opting for Harvard. But now that he has two years of education under his belt, his position has changed. Scouts from every team have watched him play this spring, and after every game, even the ones he has lost, the phone in his Winthrop House suite has been buzzing. Peters has told them all the same thing: I want to continue full-time at Harvard until I graduate, but if the price is right I will pass...