Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issued statements supporting the Pittsburgh firm. Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp sent a wire to Smith stating his belief that Imetal wants Copperweld "as a source of cash only and has no intention of reinvesting profits in the U.S." Pennsylvania Congressman John Dent recently held hearings in the Pittsburgh suburb of Glassport to enable Copperweld workers and suppliers, many in hard hats and work shoes, to air arguments against the takeover...
...school opening in Louisville, the three children of Al and Mildred McCauley-David, 15, Danny, 14, and Debbie, 10-remained in their brick home in Highview, a white middle-class suburb in Jefferson County. Debbie, who was not scheduled for busing and could have attended her old school a few blocks away, asked, "Mommy, when can I go? If I don't pretty soon, I'm going to be far behind." Mrs. McCauley shook her head and looked away...
While delegates to the conference of nonaligned countries were winding up their meeting in Lima last week, host Peru did a little realigning of its own. In a swift, bloodless coup, Strongman Juan Velasco Alvarado was ousted, and left the palace freely for his home in the suburb of Chaclacayo. His No. 2 man, Francisco Morales Bermudez, took his place. The change, the new government said rather vaguely, would not only end "personality cults" but would also ensure a "free fatherland...
...City-suburb school busing for the Louisville area was ordered by a district court of appeals in July; a few days later another court ordered the immediate merger of the 73 Louisville public schools with the 107 schools in surrounding Jefferson County to facilitate the busing. (The newly merged school district has a total enrollment of 130,000 students, including 26,000 blacks.) Milburn T. Maupin, a black former acting superintendent of Louisville schools, then organized and directed a human-relations campaign designed to minimize racial tensions. He set up a speakers' bureau of school officials, principals and teachers...
...council of 200 delegates from all across Italy had been called to chart new political directions in the wake of disastrous setbacks for the Christian Democrats in the recent regional elections (TIME, June 30). As the delegates arrived at party headquarters in EUR, a suburb of Rome, many of them had obviously already picked a primary target for the "renewal." They blamed Christian Democratic losses and sizable Communist Party gains directly on Fanfani, who is the unquestioned leader of the factionalized party's right wing...