Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When her surgeon husband found her body one morning last week, Mrs. Alice Hochhausler, 50, lay sprawled by the family's blue Triumph sports car in the garage next to their home in Cincinnati's suburb of Clifton. Some time during the night before, she had returned home from her daughter's nearby apartment. When she got out of her station wagon, she was clubbed on the head so hard that her dental plate popped out in the driveway. She was dragged by the heels into the garage. She was strangled with the cord...
...Little Viet Nam." Forbes Park, in Manila's southern suburbs, is known as the "millionaires' barrio"; here curved streets wend gracefully beneath towering acacia trees, and deep-piled lawns run down to Rorschach-shaped swimming pools. Armed guards stop every car without a Forbes Park sticker, and the suburb's residents?mostly Americans and Filipinos who earn more than 5,000 pesos ($1,250) a month?have their own golf course and polo club...
...Watts?" neighbors would ask me after I returned from a summer of teaching there. I was always at a loss for a good answer, knowing that they knew about the ghetto only through the newspapers or perhaps Life magazine. To most of them, living in an all-white suburb, Watts meant violence, a pocket of black men seething with discontent, waiting for another incident to spark a week of looting and burning. Behind the curiosity of my neghbors was the tacit question, "Were they...
About midnight, five hours after his ad-libbed tribute to Valerie, Chuck Percy wearily returned to his $230,000, three-acre estate, Windward, on the Lake Michigan shore in Chicago's elegant suburb of Kenilworth. Valerie was in her bedroom watching television. She had decided earlier that day not to attend a "Dance-for-Percy" party on the North Shore; she dined at home with two young men who were working for the campaign, and retired shortly after 10 p.m. Her twin sister Sharon was in another room. Another of Percy's daughters, Gail, 13, was asleep...
...even greater trouble. With so many jobs available, teachers can choose where they want to live. San Francisco, Los. Angeles and Miami are not shorthanded, but California's hot San Joaquin Valley and Florida's rural Marion County are desperately advertising for help. The rich Long Island suburb of Hempstead, on the other hand, pays new teachers $6,400, had 3,000 applications for fewer than 40 openings...