Word: suburban
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...Orville Sorenson, is 73. Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes they are not, but they are close. Along with 275 other volunteers, they make up the Sun City posse, a real, live law-enforcement group that combats the elements of crime in its little piece of the new West-a suburban retirement community outside Phoenix. Decked out in regulation brown-and-beige uniforms and Stetson hats, and sometimes packing pistols, the posse has cut petty theft by 32% since it was started in 1971. Insurance companies, taking note of the drop in Sun City's No. 1 local crime, charge...
DIED. Celia Johnson, 73, refined British actress, best remembered for her role as the respectable suburban matron in love with Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter (1946); of a stroke; in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire. A veteran of the English stage since 1928, Johnson endeared herself to U.S. audiences through such films, besides Brief Encounter, as In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1947) and Captain's Paradise (1953), in which she embodied the quintessential Englishwoman, mature and intelligent. Last year she was made a Dame of the British Empire...
Many volunteer fire departments, particularly in suburban communities, rely heavily on housewives for daytime response. The physical agility test has been overturned as non-job-related in many localities, such as Jacksonville. In almost 40 years in the fire service, I have yet to carry anyone up a flight of stairs for a rescue. I prefer instead to drag a person along the floor and down the stairs, both to stay below the heat and smoke and to permit better balance for myself...
THEROUX'S INCLINATION is obvious. Not particularly interested in the suburban soap-opera life of America or the decaying, over-exploited one of Europe, he has taken to the more exotic of the world's climates and locales. From the chatter and odor of the Howrah station in Calcutta to the more sympatico setting of Costa Rica, Theroux finds himself obsessed with a world beyond the borders of affluence and gratuitous soul-searchings. His proposition is pretty much a remedy for boredom--his own, and that of us who bother to take the train-rides with him. For what Paul...
...various reports disagree on what happened to Brezhnev after his arrival in Moscow. Some put him in the Kremlin clinic on Granovsky Street and cite stories that police cordoned off entrances to the health center. Other versions have him convalescing at his suburban Moscow dacha, which is believed to have the latest in medical equipment. When quizzed about the hospitalization rumors, the laconic Foreign Ministry spokesman stopped just short of a denial, noting that he had "no information...