Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After six years of house arrest in a Cairo suburb, Major General Mohammed Naguib, original "strongman" of Egypt's 1952 revolution against King Farouk, was once again at liberty. Naguib, who proved too good to be strong, was first slapped into confinement when he showed signs of developing mass popularity and thereby outgrowing his role as front man for a junta led by Egypt's current President, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Though Naguib was freed last July on the anniversary of his revolution, his new status passed unnoticed until last week, because he continues to enjoy life...
...father had been baptized but wandered from the church," says Murray. "But my mother was a practicing Catholic, and after their marriage he rallied around." Early in his childhood, the family moved across the East River to Jamaica, now a crowded segment of the city but then a rural suburb. Here John Murray, with his two sisters, had a happy, uneventful childhood until his father died when he was twelve...
...suburb of Highland Park will go up a Black Sheep Club where the pretty waitresses will be long of leg and short of clothes, the drinks expensive ($1.50 a shot), and the access limited to gentlemen keyholders and their guests. The building will be the newest addition to the fast-growing number of key clubs whose keys have become a new status symbol for those who do their playing on expense accounts...
Matt Jones is a run-of-the-Miltown adman who lives in a suburb of New York's Westchester County, where the only certainties are debt and taxes. Peaceable Lane is a newly planted colony of middle-class status creepers whose houses cost $30,000. "You can get some pretty odd ones at those prices," says a big-rich snob from nearby Grassy Tor, but Peaceable Lane's eleven families, ranging from doctors and lawyers to a union vice president and a radio commentator, are not notably odd. Matt and his neighbors are a standoffish, power-mower elite...
...Egypt in triumph after President Nasser is deposed, Egypt's porcine ex-King Farouk, 40, is grooming his only son, little Prince Ahmed Fuad, 8, to sit in turn upon Egypt's dust-gathering throne. In Switzerland, Fuad attends a village public school in a Lausanne suburb, is rated "an extremely bright" second grader, lives with his three older half sisters. Commuting between his children and Rome, Farouk is now trying to be a model papa. Always a nonsmoking teetotaler, he has even given up his night life, permits himself only one conspicuous indulgence: buxom, blonde Irma Capece...