Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This brush with the law was mighty close. The jury (seven men, five women) voted 11 to 1 for conviction. Juror Earle T. MacHardy, a suburban sugar buyer who had said on selection that his firm's dealings with the Teamsters Union would not affect the impartiality of his verdict, held out adamantly for acquittal. His reason: the U.S. Government had failed to make its circumstantial evidence stick. Though Jimmy was free to go (on $2,500 bond), he was by no means out of the courtroom woods. Ahead lie: 1) outcome of a suit by 13 rank...
Special Sickness. Next day, as if determined to convince the newsmen that their fears were groundless, Ike took on a jampacked schedule. In the morning he drove out to suburban Rocquencourt to visit SHAPE-the NATO military headquarters which he established in 1951. Ignoring the freezing wind, Ike stood at salute through the Marseillaise and The Star-Spangled Banner, then set off on a tour of the headquarters with U.S. General Lauris Norstad. the man who now holds his old job as SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe). After a quick look at the office that he left...
France's precocious (10) Poetess Minou Drouet was starring in a movie titled Clara and the Crooks, a sentimental tale about a lovable tyke who reforms a gang of bandits through her inexorable sweetness and innocence. During a recess at the suburban Paris studio, little Minou chirped excitedly about her film career: "We have had several scenarios offered to us, but I didn't like them. In one of the stories I was supposed to strangle a dog. Just imagine me hurting an animal! The Clara story is wonderful! What a nice idea to save...
Parkinson's Law is the best of these three books. It is original, subtle, and genial. Professor Parkinson's humor is neither outrageous nor mundane. And unlike Kerr and Wright, he does not write for the Saturday Evening Post audience or the suburban literati...
Even where other facilities such as buses exist, the roads must keep unprofitable lines running, though suburban travel is now compressed to rush periods twice a day. Nearly 90% of the Pennsylvania's suburban trains stand idle in off-peak hours, and the New York Central uses its $60 million commuter facilities at full capacity only 13% of the time...