Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What held up the legislation for so long is the complexities rising from the fact that Venice is not one but three different cities. There is the historic town built on 118 alluvial islands in a lagoon, plus two other communities on the mainland: the bleak, modern residential suburb of Mestre, which the daily Corriere della Sera calls a "delirium of concrete," and the huge, fume-filled industrial port of Marghera. Any action to help Venice often turns out to harm her ugly sisters. For example, Venice is sinking in part because the pumping of fresh water from artesian wells...
...London suburb, the police are engaged in an all-out man hunt for a sex pervert who molests children. Connery is a detective who brings a peculiar passion to the pursuit. When a prime suspect (Ian Bannen) is captured, Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit...
SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO: In this affluent suburb of Cleveland, City Librarian Margaret Campbell, 60, is worried. How will she ever get back $157 worth of unreturned books when dishonesty reaches as high as the White House? "I'm just appalled by Watergate," she says. "What kind of world are we making for the young? How can we hope to inspire them if our officials are men they can't admire?" Once sympathetic to Nixon, Miss Campbell now salutes Barry Goldwater ("Though I never thought Fd be lined up with him!") for his call upon Nixon to exercise more...
...Till I get there I don't know what the possibilities are," Chickering-Clay said yesterday, "so a lot of what I'm doing will be research." Chickering-Clay has worked with disadvantaged children in a suburb of London, and she said she had "made some contacts" that...
...lives in Wayland, an upper middle class suburb about 20 miles west of Boston. He celebrated his 61st birthday yesterday, and spent most of today avoiding the media until the 5 p.m. press conference...