Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teacher of composition at Mannes, Sydeman lives with his wife and two children in a Manhattan suburb. But he is thinking of moving farther out to increase his 40-minute commuting time. His reason: he does his best composing on trains. "If I'm in the studio I want to get out, but if I'm on the train I can just look out the window. After all, Mozart liked to write in a carriage...
...Beja, 85 miles southeast of Lisbon, a sentry at the 3rd Infantry Regiment barracks was roused by the approach of four automobiles. Recognizing three of his own regimental officers, he waved the cars inside the gate. But the cars also carried a score of workers from Lisbon's suburb of Almada, and such sworn foes of the Salazar regime as ex-Army Captain João Varela Gomes and Manuel Serra, former head of the Catholic youth movement...
...refusing to review a lower court decision, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld desegregation of a predominantly Negro school in the New York City suburb of New Rochelle-first Northern community found guilty of segregating Negroes by gerrymandering district lines...
From East Berlin's Stalinallee to a Paris suburb's Rue Staline,* street signs and statues last week were torn down as Khrushchev's destalinization drive continued. The campaign proceeded without much opposition. An exception was Italy, where Stalin's second death was the center of debate and confusion within the largest Communist party in the West...
...Ivry-sur-Seine (constituency of French Communist Chief Maurice Thorez), where the suburb's Red mayor changed the street to Rue Lenine...