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George's triumph occurred recently at the Academy of Physical and Social Development in the affluent Boston suburb of Newton Center. A year and a half ago, the little boy was timorous, overattached to his mother, and the victim of two badgering sisters. Now, say academy staffers, he is "quite a tiger." (A few days before socking his father, he had flailed away at a sister.) The transformation is typical of changes wrought by Sumner ("Mike") Burg, an unpretentious man whose lack of professional credentials has not kept him from winning the respect of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. Using...
With upper floors stepped five feet out beyond lower ones, the structures have a brooding quality. Fountains and an impressive collection of outdoor sculpture lend a touch of urban design. The place seems to foreshadow a new kind of city-suburb...
...fortnight, the first-floor flat in the working-class suburb of Montreal North had been under tense surveillance. Only when police were completely satisfied with the accuracy of their tips and leads did they swing into action. They routed the residents out of a four-block area. Hundreds of policemen, Mounties and troops in battle dress were rushed in to encircle the stark apartment building at 10945 Des Recollets Avenue. The electricity was cut off. A nearby school was closed so that it could be used as a helicopter pad. Finally, two hours after the siege began, a lead pipe...
...police uncovered this matinal merrymaking after they traced a 15-year-old runaway girl from Milan to the apartment of Giselda Giovannelli, 55, in the Monte Sacro (Sacred Mountain) suburb of Rome. Staking out the building, they watched scores of pretty young women and well-dressed men pass in and out. The women were so attractive that, in the words of one neighbor, "they would give a blind man back his sight." As the morals cops discovered when they arrested Giselda and found her list of clients and 150 prostitutes, the girls were housewives, young mothers, students, secretaries, airline hostesses...
Suburban Targets. Before the landing party's members were killed, captured or driven off by Touré's Chinese-trained "people's militia," they headed toward an expensive suburb of Conakry and raided the headquarters of PAIGC (African Party for the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde). Guerrilla fighters from PAIGC now control anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of Portuguese Guinea, pinning down some 30,000 troops. The party's founder and leader, Amilcar Cabral, was in Europe during last week's raid and missed an attack on his house...