Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Climbing Blocks. The scene was a western suburb of Algiers called Bab-el-Oued (pronounced Bablouette by its 50,000 inhabitants, who are mostly of Spanish, Italian and Jewish origin), a district of dark, dingy bars and cafes interspersed with modern shops, movie theaters and banks. Huge apartment blocks climb the hills above the shoe and cigarette factories that employ many Moslem workers. Long a hotbed of pied-noir extremism, Bab-el-Oued produces leaders like ex-Cab Driver Jesus Giner, who swaggers about the Cafe des Trois Horloges with a posse of armed hoodlums and boasts, "Here, I make...
...Time for Sentiment. For newsmen, Algeria has become the most dangerous assignment in the world. In January an enraged mob of Europeans broke the arms of a photographer for Look magazine who had snapped pictures of a race riot in Bab-el-Oued, an Algiers suburb. Last month, a French TV cameraman, James Bantos, was shot to death. Fortnight ago, Camille Pelletier of United Press International, emerging from a building in downtown Algiers, was set upon by a razor-wielding thug of the S.A.O., the Secret Army Organization, and viciously slashed about the face...
...reported that a court had condemned to death a Red racketeer whose crime was on almost everyone's lips. Nikolai Kotlyar, alias the Lipstick King, amassed a fortune before his arrest last winter by operating a hot lipstick syndicate from the basement of his house in a Moscow suburb (TIME, Dec. 15). Through nine strategically placed accomplices in a state-owned plant at Riga, said Izvestia. Kotlyar in 1960 alone got hold of 59,000 lipstick tubes, which an underground labor force filled with homemade batter and distributed nationwide. Top executives at the plant who, complained the paper, "considered...
...nearly every air traveler knows, it often takes more time to get to and from the airport than the flight itself. Some cities have tried helicopters to ferry passengers from downtown or a suburb out to the airport, but on the whole the service is limited, and so costly that scheduled helicopter lines need federal subsidies...
...gubernatorial candidacy last week, he fasted for 24 hours in prayerful consideration. A physical-fitness bug, he arises each morning at 5, jogs for a mile or so in a sweatsuit or bangs golf balls around the country club adjoining his $150,000 house in Bloomfield Hills, a Detroit suburb. Because of the many irons he has in the fire, Romney has little time to spend with his attractive family (the Romneys have four children, five grandchildren). To catch up on sleep, he often catnaps in the fold-back bed of his chauffeur-driven Rambler as he spins around Michigan...