Word: suburb
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...state personnel commissioner, countered by noting that his Marine unit had handled the offshore recovery of a Gemini space shot. In the end, however. Beard won for far more prosaic reasons?the district had been redrawn to include 51,000 white, conservative voters, mostly from a Shelby County suburb appropriately named "Whitehaven...
Peron's trip has been carefully orchestrated to have the maximum impact. His Argentine supporters, who could deliver up to 40% of the popular vote, have already purchased a $70,000 house in the posh Buenos Aires suburb of Olivos for their old leader, who turned 77 last month. The house is only eight blocks from the presidential villa of Argentina's current strongman (and Peron's archfoe), Alejandro Lanusse. Peronistas have also chartered a DC-8 from Alitalia to fly their leader home. Aboard will be his third wife Isabelita, 41, several aides, household servants and numerous bodyguards...
...places in the world since the end of the Second Vatican Council where a Wednesday night novena can snarl traffic for miles around. The ramshackle old houses in the central city still contrast as sharply as ever with the gleaming villas in the new suburb of Makati, where private security guards carrying carbines patrol outside the smart shops. One notable change, though, is the whitewashed cleanliness of city walls that once were covered with revolutionary slogans and anti-Marcos graffiti. They were washed clean by ROTC students after Marcos shut down the universities. Now that colleges have reopened, the students...
Republican Candidate Fletcher Thompson, 47, despite his base in a middle-class Atlanta suburb, appeals to much the same constituency as Nunn. Three-Term Congressman Thompson is an unreconstructed conservative who opposes busing, liberal judges, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, Black Power and gun controls. Nunn was an early favorite but the two are now roughly even...
...grisly memories of the Manson killings. In August, Retired Insurance Broker Paul Corbett, his wife and sister-in-law were found dead, each shot in the back of the head with a .25-cal. gun, in the pantry of Corbett's $100,000 home in the fashionable Chicago suburb of Barrington Hills. A fourth victim, Corbett's stepdaughter, was dead in the blood-spattered kitchen, shot in the chest with a .30-cal. weapon. A month later Machine Designer Stephen Hawtree, his wife and teen-age son were executed in a similar fashion in the basement of their...