Word: suburb
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...Saudi Arabia's King Faisal. The pictures symbolize Egyptian hopes that Arab oil money will finance the reconstruction of the war-ruined Suez Canal Zone and eventually convert it into a thriving agricultural and industrial region. One tangible result of this dream is "King Faisal City," a suburb of 3,000 housing units that is being built behind the portraits. Another is the announcement, expected imminently, that salvage operations in the canal, which has been closed since 1967, have been completed...
...have a capacity for bilocation and legerdemain that might more accurately be dubbed "le style surnaturel." Take, for instance, his purported 5 a.m. car collision with a milk truck last September. The accident was reportedly witnessed by some on the Champs Elysées, by others in a Paris suburb. Some say they saw him driving a black Citroën, some a green Peugeot. Others knowingly assert that the vehicle was a red Maserati borrowed from his friend, Film Director Roger Vadim. According to most of the rumors, he was alone on the night of the accident. Unless...
...political correspondent, and Reporter Dave Anderson, 32, five days before the November elections. Their story accused State Representative James Damman, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, of conflicts of interest arising from his land deals while a member of the city commission and zoning board of Troy, a Detroit suburb...
...most serious problem area is the southern part of the state, where new housing developments have been built along the marshy bayous where the alligators live. Last summer, for example, a family in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie went out to its swimming pool for an evening dip, but stopped short: a 4-ft. alligator was lolling in the water. Alligators have also been pulled, smoked or hosed out of culverts in Golden Meadow, Morgan City and other towns south of New Orleans...
Today the Rabins live part of the time in the Premier's official residence in Jerusalem and part of the time in their eighth-floor penthouse apartment in a North Tel Aviv suburb. Their daughter Dahlia, 24, is an apprentice lawyer, and Son Yuval, 19, is a tank-corps officer stationed in Sinai. For years the family lived in a house in the Tel Aviv suburb of Zahala, just around the corner from Moshe Dayan, but decided to move last year. For one thing, says the vivacious Leah Rabin with a sniff, living next to Dayan was noisy because...