Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules of fate and chance, that scarred and willful old warbird, Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, should have been back home in Columbus, Ohio last week with a cane, a bad temper, a book of yellowed clippings and a half interest in a suburban gas station. Instead, after 38 years of derring-do, he was one of America's most famous and successful men-not only a kind of Buffalo Bill of the gasoline age, but an intimate of rulers, and a self-made captain of industry as well...
...just as Downey dropped off the merry-go-round, he bequeathed his wan blessing and his political organization to a newcomer to politics, Elias Manchester Boddy, publisher of California's only big-city Democratic daily, the Los Angeles Daily News, and gentleman farmer of a 168-acre suburban camellia and azalea farm...
...from Brookline. Phumiphon had been born in 1927 in a Cambridge hospital while his father, Prince Mahidol, half-brother of Prajadhipok,* studied medicine at Harvard. The first years of Phumiphon's life were spent in the suburban atmosphere of Brookline, Mass. A few years later, after his father's death, he had moved with his mother, sister, and elder brother Ananda to Lausanne, Switzerland. Six years after that childless King Prajadhipok abdicated in favor of his nephew Ananda...
...personal life. If he does not drink heavily, he obviously eats well; a favorite snack is French pastry. He smokes an expensive brand of Russian cigarettes, Northern Palmyras. Despite his Kremlin pallor, he likes fresh air. He goes duck hunting in the marshes outside Moscow. He rates a suburban villa on the Mozhaisk Road, a bulletproof limousine, and an armored-car escort...
Within the first ten minutes, police received 1000 calls from panicky citizens. At suburban Dorval, a dozen men actually marched up, hands dutifully clasped behind their necks, ready to surrender. A good many Montrealers, it seemed, had never heard of Orson Welles or his "Martian" radio broadcast...