Word: suburb
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Dunne has found one unexplained source of opposition: the parents of some students she has encouraged to become teachers. Asks Dunne angrily: "Why is it that people will go from suburb to suburb refusing to buy a house until they figure out where the best schools are, and at the same time forbid their children to become teachers...
...incident was the fourth arson attack against Jews in West Hartford (pop. 61,000), an affluent suburb of Connecticut's capital, in less than six weeks. The first fire badly charred the wooden interior of the Young Israel of West Hartford Synagogue. Four days later, a second blaze gutted Emanuel Synagogue, a few blocks from the site of the first arson. The next day, flames raced through the home of Rabbi Solomon Krupka, spiritual leader of Young Israel. He and his family were away; six guests staying there managed to escape unharmed...
...meantime, the once beautiful capital city and its suburbs endured another week of random violence. The fires in the hills were caused by a four-sided artillery duel whose participants included the Druze and Christian militias, the Lebanese Army and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Even the U.S. ambassador's residence in the suburb of Yarze took several rounds, which set the garden ablaze and forced Ambassador Robert Dillon to seek refuge in the Presidential Palace, a short distance away...
...their ideology. Neither was easy for France's Communist Party (P.C.F.) last week as hundreds of thousands of members and sympathizers gathered for their annual fund-raising fair, the fête de l'humanité, in a 37-acre park in the working-class Paris suburb of La Courneuve. While construction workers, secretaries and concierges wrestled with their crepes, foie gras and muscadet in the pounding rain, party leaders were striving to maintain loyalty on the most emotional issue of the day: the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by the Soviet Union...
...July, after a 24-year career, Dawkins resigned from the Army, wife Judi in attendance at the farewell ceremony at Fort Myer, Va. The move did not surprise his parents, Henry, a dentist now retired, and Frances, who lives in a condominium in Bloomfield Hills, a comfortable Detroit suburb not far from Royal Oak, where Pete grew up. Says Frances: "He said there was an optimum age to make a change, and this...