Word: suburb
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Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum is strictly from Eastern urb and suburb, but went into training for the story by camping out at Jackson Hole, Wyo., and some of his delight rubs off in the telling. Among correspondents who supplied material for the story are a number of old campers. Kenneth Froslid of the Chicago bureau, a camper since the age of five, originally proposed the cover after camping out on an 8,200-mile cross-country Volkswagen tour with his wife. He has since graduated to the amenities of an Apache Chief camping trailer. Bob Wood, who filed from...
Poking around. Reporter Mollenhoff discovered that Coad had agreed to pay $300 a month to support his first wife and their four children, that he had recently purchased a new home in a Washington suburb, and that he was deeply in debt. Congressman Coad made some remarkable admissions. Even back in Iowa, Coad had been a grain speculator. Now, in Washington, as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, he continued playing the grain market. Coad claimed to Mollenhoff that it was obvious that he had not used inside information, since he had ended up losing money. Moreover, Coad...
...bright, energetic Urbana, Ohio, Negro who sings calypso and has long been torn between his scientific talents and a burgeoning humanitarian impulse. Son of a semiskilled truck-plant laborer. Honore was the first Negro to be elected student-body president at Capital University, a Lutheran school in a suburb of Columbus, where he got his B.S. in physics and math. A 1959 trip to Castro's Cuba in a National Students Association delegation was an eye-opener: "I saw these people in the rural areas living under the most adverse conditions while the rich in the cities lived...
...Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, but being a poor man with only a small apartment in Athens. the Premier delegated his friend Marcos Nomikos, a wealthy shipping magnate and a member of the Greek parliament, as substitute host. Nomikos put the North Wind and his villa in a seaside suburb of Athens (with a splendid, theatrical view of the distant Acropolis) at Jackie's disposal. While Jackie and her friends sunned and swam at the villa, units of the Greek navy patrolled the sea. a mile offshore, waving off intruders. When chartered yachts, full of newsmen, came too close...
Twelve federal disease detectives were gumshoeing through the normally placid Chicago suburb of Niles (13 miles northwest of the Loop) last week, on what looked like a hot trail in the hunt for a cause of acute leukemia (blood cancer) in childhood. An outbreak of cases in that community suggests for the first time that childhood leukemia, while definitely not infectious in any ordinary sense, somehow spreads from some common source...