Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insurgents are only two miles from Takhmau, a suburb of Phnom-Penh so critical to the capital's defenses that one Western diplomat vows that "if the insurgents take Takhmau. I'm heading for the airport." One might expect that the approach to Takhmau would be studded with government gun emplacements and fallback defensive positions. Not so. It is poorly defended. To the soldiers along Route 2, which cuts through Takhmau to Phnom-Penh, the situation looks bleak. They feel that the government has done little for them. They complain about the corruption of the Lon Nol regime...
...suburb of Bangkok, on Dec. 10, 1968, barefoot and wet from a shower, Merton touched a defectively wired room fan and was electrocuted. His death prompted friends to speculate whether Merton would ever have returned to the U.S. from his enthusiastic plunge into Buddhism. The answer now seems to be yes, though he might not have returned to Gethsemani itself...
Pushing through supermarket aisles thronged with anxious shoppers last week. Housewife Katie Wolff of Winnetka, Ill., an affluent Chicago suburb, was exasperated. "Nixon has lost control of things," she said. "Prices are so high we haven't had pork chops or steak in a month." Mrs. Joan Sheets of Los Angeles had the same complaint: "They tell us to eat less expensively, but just try finding a cheaper cut of meat. Even bologna is $1.30 a pound...
Bordersville is the most "undeveloped" Houston suburb. Mostly black with a few poor white families, it is a ramshackle collection of old wooden cottages that lies in the shadow of Houston's brand new $110 million inter-continental airport. Bordersville, which is about 15 miles from downtown Houston, was annexed by the city several years ago along with the land for the airport. But although the airport has everything from hot and cold running water to hot and cold running scotch, Bordersville has no running water, no sewers, and no paved roads...
PICTURE a wealthy suburb of Detroit--sprawling Georgian housefronts set on man-made rolls of lawns smooth as golf greens. Except for the maids and gardeners, the houses are empty during the day--husbands off at work, kids chauffered out of sight. Meantime, the wives play ladies doubles, attend benefit teas, Junior League meetings, fund raising planning sessions, art patrons gatherings, reading groups. The women spend much busy time together, most of it talk time. They talk about the kids, the husbands, the movies in town, in deprecating tones of the latest divorces, in defensive tones of the headlines they...