Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upper-class white Salisbury suburb of Highlands on a sunny Sunday afternoon, George and Jeanette Smith sip gin-and-tonic "sundowners" around the swimming pool behind their handsome $50,000 two-story stone home. Both are Rhodesian-born and -bred, in their late 30s, and not particularly prosperous by Salisbury standards. "We couldn 't afford to live like this anywhere else," admits George, a junior partner in a local law firm. Like many other white Rhodesians, he has been called up for military reserve duty three times in the past year, and has had to spend 82 days away...
...this field at all. But I saw the job listed in the OCS-OCL newsletter and decided, hey, this would be a good way to spend time off, as long as I would be doing something other than stuffing envelopes. I grew up in Palo Alto, a fairly wealthy suburb of San Francisco, then I went to Harvard--how 'elitist' can you get? I thought this would give me a chance to deal with real people, to hear their concerns--and it does...
Strikes, demonstrations and violence continued to trouble Spain last week. In Basauri, a suburb of Bilbao in rebellious Basque country (TIME, March 15), a demonstrator was gunned down by the Guardia Civil; a furious crowd forced the guardsmen to retreat to their headquarters. In Tarragona, a worker fell from a roof to his death during a clash with police. Shipyard workers even struck in Franco's birthplace. But a quieter event of considerable political significance occurred last week in Madrid, where nine military officers were found guilty of sedition...
Ruby L. Holloway '78 has spent half her life abroad, following her father, a retired Air Force major, around from post to post. Though she spent most of that time with other Americans, in American-funded schools on suburb-like American military bases, she and other students who have lived abroad but undergone a less intense American experience share two beliefs. They all eapressed a desire to leave the United States again--for at least some sustained length of time--and all claimed the ability to view American society from a detached perspective...
...American who had an externally foreign existence can also choose the other direction; a life that is more typically American than not. Before Harvard, Jeffrey Scott '77 had attended only one year of an American school. He lived in a suburb of Paris where his father worked as an international lawyer; his American contacts were limited to his family, Boy Scout troops and summer vacations every two years in California. Scott wants to get a law degree and eventually enter American politics. Even though living in France gave him the viewpoint that "people are people are people," it made...