Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France's economic and cultural equivalent of the Deep South - Raymond longed for money, social position, fast cars and dames. On his discharge as a French army commando, he adopted the aristocratic-sounding name of Raymond de Beaufort. Calling on his mother, a factory worker in a Paris suburb, Raymond turned up in new U.S. cars (rented), airily told his childhood pals he was going to build a factory and give them all jobs. "No matter how high I rise, I shall never forget you," Raymond would say, as he drove off in a Thunderbird...
...commanded. The slim, doe-eyed young king has a well-developed taste for fast cars, fleet horses and rapid starlets. Hassan was often in the company of pretty. 28-year-old French Actress Etchika Choureau, who, for three years, lived across the street from him in fashionable Souissi, a suburb of Rabat. But Etchika has returned to Paris. One of his close friends last year was U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Leon Blair, a brash, talkative Texan and former public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped in pecan trees from Texas for Hassan's garden...
...Lancashire bookie, Finney was raised in the same Manchester suburb where Playwright Shelagh (A Taste of Honey) Delaney grew up, did so badly in school that his headmaster finally recommended that he become an actor "as a desperate move to get rid of me." He did so well at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art that he won a spot with the excellent Birmingham Repertory Company, where Charles Laughton found him and helped get him his job at Stratford. He has turned down five long-term movie contracts, did Saturday Night and Sunday Morning on a one-film basis...
Even in Southern California, it seemed a bit bizarre. In the West Covina suburb of Los Angeles county last week, housewives with binoculars kept day-long vigil from ranch-house picture windows, while at night the husbands took over. One manned a spotlight on the entrance to a road running through a 1,100-acre tract of West Covina wilderness. Others, on horseback, patrolled the tract's borders, looking for signs of surreptitious spadework. What West Covina's residents were trying to do was prevent the expansion into their split-level suburb of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park...
...across the street and pretends that the house is a haunted castle. One day the sign is gone, and a contagious whisper races along the sycamore-lined street that the house might as well be haunted. The first Negro family is moving into Sheridan Avenue in the placid Midwest suburb of Courtland Park...