Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, a sensational trial and seven escapes from mental hospitals-"Tiger Woman" Winnie Ruth Judd, 66, has been granted a commutation of her life sentence by Arizona Governor Jack Williams. If she gets the parole board's permission, the matronly murderess plans to return to the San Francisco suburb of Damville, where she was recaptured in 1969 after spending several years incognito as housekeeper to a local doctor...
...that trip will no longer be necessary, thanks to the new Auto-Train. Modeled on the excellent auto-bearing passenger trains of Europe and Canada, the Auto-Train will begin running daily from the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Va., to Sanford, Fla., on Dec. 6. The train will carry 90 to 104 vehicles in several enclosed carrier cars for a flat fee of $190 per car and group of four passengers. It will leave the new Alexandria station at 8 p.m., stop only for brief crew changes, and arrive at 11 o'clock the following morning in Sanford...
...house is unprepossessing, a small, white wooden frame structure in a quiet Salt Lake City suburb. The family patriarch, a stolid pressman of 41 with muttonchop whiskers, sits in his modest living room playing with two of his seven children. In the kitchen, three women are busy over several bushels of peaches. One woman is peeling the plump yellow fruit; another toils over the kettles simmering on the stove; a third pops peach halves into bottles. The tableau seems to be a Rockwellian slice of rural Americana, a pair of friendly neighbors helping a housewife put up peaches...
...Compound in a suburb of East Berlin will rattle off a burst of jumbled numbers aimed at a KGB undercover agent somewhere in Western Europe. The agent will respond by using the "dead-letter box" system or a powerful two-way radio no larger than three packs of king-size cigarettes...
...save money on teachers' salaries and maintenance costs, Chicago is now planning to send children home twelve days early for Christmas vacation; in a district near Waterville, Me., the school week now has four days. Zeon J. Sykuta, superintendent in the lower-middle-class Chicago suburb of Country Club Hills, observes that the recession has forced belt tightening "when there are no notches left...