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...Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, the cause fared better. Officials waived the rules and 11-year-old Susan Farbin entered the Soap Box Derby traditionally open only to boys aged 11 to 15. She obtained the sponsorship of the National Organization for Women and emblazoned her bright pink racer with a Women's Lib emblem of sexual equality. In the derby finals, Susan may have unsettled some of the boys' dawning prejudices about women drivers by going faster than a greased (male chauvinist) pig and taking three trophies-for best racer construction, first in her age class and second...
...evidence of the bloodbath is all over East Pakistan. Whole sections of cities lie in ruins from shelling and aerial attacks. In Khalishpur, the northern suburb of Khulna, naked children and haggard women scavenge the rubble where their homes and shops once stood. Stretches of Chittagong's Hizari Lane and Maulana Sowkat Ali Road have been wiped out. The central bazaar in Jessore is reduced to twisted masses of corrugated tin and shattered walls. Kushtia, a city of 40,000, now looks, as a World Bank team reported, "like the morning after a nuclear attack." In Dacca, where soldiers...
...suburb of Washington, D.C., a six-year-old child was surprised to find that his playmate's mother was at home one noon, preparing lunch. The six-year-old piped up: "What's the matter with your mother? Can't she work...
...Francisco's picture-postcard suburb of Sausalito boasts a rare breed of American fauna: a small band of happy commuters. The reason is blue and white, cost $700,000 and floats. It is called the M.V. Golden Gate; and in the eleven months that it has been plying the waters of San Francisco Bay between Sausalito, in Marin County, and the city's Pier One, it has turned hundreds of auto-addicted commuters into confirmed ferry fans...
...chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights only put into epigram what frustrated black leaders have been saying for years: American suburbs are still posted with FOR WHITE ONLY signs. The immediate case in point is Black Jack, Mo. (pop. 3,900), a pleasant, middle-class suburb of St. Louis. The community was incorporated primarily to pass zoning laws, which would have blocked a federally funded low-income housing project (TIME, April 26). Despite Black Jack officials' insistence that their concern was to keep their suburb safe for the middle class, the move was so blatantly antiblack that...