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Gough Whitlam was born July 11, 1916 in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. His father, Harry Frederick Ernest Whitlam, was a lawyer who eventually attained the high civil service post of Commonwealth Crown Solicitor and also became Australian representative on the U.N. Human Rights Commission. As a boy, Gough liked to sit at dinner with the family encyclopedia at his back, handy for reference in arguments. Gough left one school after a teacher complained of his impudence, a charge that was to be echoed throughout his life. In Canberra Grammar, he was classed as industrious but not brilliant, good...
...feminist group NOW, points out that a vast number of blacks still exist close to the poverty level or even below it. Snaps Black Actress Val Gray: "I can't address myself to the problems of a woman in Highland Park [a white, upper-middle-class Chicago suburb] when she is trying to get out of her kitchen and I'm in her kitchen as a maid...
Police promptly arrested Massol, who decided to share his secret with them after cooling his heels for a few hours at police headquarters on the Quai des Orfèvres. He led the cops to a garage in the working-class suburb of Saint-Ouen, where the casket was found in the back of a small truck. Police subsequently arrested three of Massol's alleged accomplices: they included François Boux de Casson, a former right-wing Deputy in the Assembly and once a propaganda officer in the Vichy government, and Michel Dumas, owner of a marble tomb...
...experimental city is planned as a totally new town-with the accent on new. Unlike most of the nation's other new communities, it will not be an instant suburb of another city. Instead, MXC will nestle in the wilderness as a self-contained entity, serving as a living laboratory for the most advanced ideas in urban planning, environment and technology. Planners expect that 130,000 jobs could be created in MXC, mainly in research-oriented industries like environmental technology and communications...
Andrea Rander, who lives in a suburb of Baltimore with her two children, Lysa, 13, and Page, six, listened with disbelief to the President's message. "Im numb," she said, "just numb. I'm still trying to believe it." Lysa, hearing the President say it had been a long vigil, turned and said to her mother: "It has been a long vigil." Last Saturday, the family got word that Sgt. First Class Donald Rander was alive. They had not heard from him since he was captured on Feb. 1, 1968. His name was on one of the first...