Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CITY WITH YOUNGEST CITIZENS : Bloomington, a Minneapolis suburb, which has so many babies that the median age is an incredible 19.6 years...
...MOST AIR CONDITIONERS: Prairie Village, a suburb across the Kansas line from Kansas City, Mo., where 68.2% of the homes have units...
...accept the widespread taunt that "corruption" and "colonel" are synonymous. The officers have houses, cars, pensions, and a high standard of living to maintain. At the recent Asian games, one army colonel was arrested for embezzling $45,000 in ticket sales. Another colonel reportedly helicoptered over a posh Djkarta suburb, picked out a house he liked, alighted near by and ordered the tenants to clear...
...virus from the cancers. But the region is a rich source of competing and often confusing viruses. Ironically, one of these, named Bunyamwera (after a Uganda district), has been tried experimentally as a treatment for cancer. It was a cluster of leukemia cases among children in the Chicago suburb of Niles, Ill. (TIME, June 2, 1961), that backed up the suggestion of a viral role in the lymphatic leukemia of American children...
...State elections law of 1950 guarantees two minor parties a place on the ballot if in the three previous gubernatorial elections their candidates polled one tenth of one per cent of the votes cast. The beneficiaries of this system are Lawrence Gilfedder an intent, wiry worker from the industrial suburb of Watertown, who is running on the Socialist Labor Party ticket, and the Rev. Mark Shaw, a white-haired clergyman from Melrose, who is representing the Prohibition Party...