Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Stalveys moved to Philadelphia from a white suburb of Omaha in 1962, they deliberately chose to settle in the city's integrated West Mount Airy district. As each of their three young children entered the nearby school, Lois Stalvey began to get involved with their classmates, more than two-thirds of whom were black. One day in 1967, when Noah was in third grade, she broke up a fight between him and an older boy named Jelly Stowe. When she invited Jelly home for milk and cookies, Noah said, "Mom, you gotta be crazy...
...kinds of victims. On a New York subway train, a school-bound 15-year-old holds his books in one hand, a brown paper bag containing a beer bottle in the other. He takes a swig, then passes bag and bottle to a classmate. In a San Francisco suburb, several high school freshmen show up for class drunk every morning, while others sneak off for a nip or two of whisky during the lunch recess. On the campuses the beer bash is fashionable once again, and lowered drinking ages have made liquor the high without the hassle...
...trial of former United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle began last week in the Philadelphia suburb of Media, Pa., evidence in the form of a .38-cal. revolver and a carbine rested ominously on a table. No less dramatic was the opening statement by Prosecuting Attorney Richard A. Sprague: "We will show how a family named Yablonski was murdered. The defendant here is the man who used the money from the United Mine Workers, from the sweat and blood of the miners of America, to pay for these murders. We will go step by step up the ladder until...
...politics. His latest book, La Tête d'Obsi-dienne, is a bestseller in France, even though it is heavily philosophical. In it, he reflects on art and civilization-Eastern, Western, African, pre-Columbian, prehistoric. TIME Correspondent Paul Ress visited the author in the Paris suburb of Verrières-le-Buisson, where he lives in a villa surrounded by sweeping lawns and old cedars. Ress's report...
...young gas meter reader. I call him Conrad Swibel. He says, "Oh, you gotta fight those dogs off. But every once in a while, say in the summer time, in a suburb out there, these young housewives, they're sunning themselves, you know? And she's in a bikini, you know, and her back is to the sun, lying on her stomach, and the bra is loose. And I go up close and I say, 'GAS METER READER!' She turns around, and I see a lot, you know. She says, 'Why didn't you announce yourself?!' And I say, 'Well...