Word: suburb
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...Loyalist's Name. Miller is the modern, urban equivalent of the candidate who was born in a log cabin-he is the son of a factory janitor in Lockport, N.Y. (pop. 27,300), an industrial suburb of Buffalo. He worked to help pay his way through Notre Dame and the Union University Law School at Albany, entered the service during World War II, was commissioned a first lieutenant in 1945 and assigned to the Judge Advocate General's war-crimes section, where he was an assistant prosecutor at the Nurnberg trials. Returning to New York, Miller was elected...
Sense & Judgment. The son of a prosperous lawyer, Kitchel was born in Bronxville, a New York City suburb, was educated at St. Paul's, Yale and Harvard Law School, set up practice in Arizona in 1934. At first, the young lawyer had "every intention" of returning to Manhattan. "But every time I did," he recalls, "I rode the subway for five minutes and was confirmed in my decision to stay in Arizona." In Phoenix he met Goldwater, then general manager of the family department store, and by the time Barry was elected to the Senate...
...etrangleur, the Jekyll-and-Hyde strangler who had hogged the headlines and taunted the police for 40 days. "The Machiavelli of crime," as France-Soir had dubbed him, turned out to be a colorless, bespectacled little (5 ft. 4 in., 130 Ibs.) male student nurse from the shabby suburb of Villejuif. His hobby was writing banal verse, which he set to borrowed music; he even paid to have his songs recorded and issued in a jacket flatteringly decorated with his face and name...
...London last week, one bookmaker phoned another and said, "Something's up at Dagenham today. I don't know what it is or what race, but something's up." It was indeed. At the Greyhound Stadium in London's thriving industrial suburb of Dagenham, a determined band of bettors was about to attempt one of the greatest coups in the history of gambling...
Much Experience. Bebel was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a fairly expensive Paris suburb, but he grew up on the Left Bank, and his colloquial language could have been swept up off the cobblestones of St.-Germain-des-Pres and Montparnasse. His father was a sculptor who taught at the Academic des Beaux-Arts...