Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superbly," one of his lawyers told him when the state court in the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville (pop. 5,200) adjourned for lunch...
...last lap of the race, the major candidates of the four principal parties campaigned in a variety of styles. Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, 57, showed up in Villejuif, a suburb in Paris' working-class Red Belt, to greet his fans in a gymnasium plastered with signs saying ENOUGH INJUSTICE! THE RICH MUST PAY! Displaying the bulldog bluntness that has made him the most entertaining of all the candidates, particularly on TV, Marchais inveighed against the "scandalously" rich. "Do you know there are agencies that specialize in the sale of Caribbean islands where...
...offbeat work by Californian Richard Posner, 29, is called The Big Enchilada 1975; it depicts in allegorical terms the White House infighting over Watergate. A similar show at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles drew 2,000 people on weekends, while another recent exhibition in the Washington suburb of Reston was jammed during its six-week...
...Figaro's pre-election coverage, which omitted any mention of his assembly district opponent-even when the paper carried a rundown of every major party candidate-until an outcry in other papers forced Figaro to relent. Last month Hersant invited 2,000 Figaro subscribers in Neuilly, the Paris suburb he wants to represent in the assembly, to a lavish champagne buffet. In protest against Hersant's abuse of Figaro, Raymond Aron and Jean d'Ormesson, two pillars of the French intellectual establishment, resigned as top editors of the paper and criticized the publisher in print...
...hard for congressional intervention. Explains an official: "It's politically unrealistic to expect to derail Project Match." Another problem is resources. Last week A.C.L.U. lawyers won another decision in the Illinois Supreme Court on behalf of American Nazi Party members who want to parade in the predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie. The A.C.L.U.'s successful defense has contributed to a 15% decline in both its membership and donations nationwide...