Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think they've forgotten us." At 9:30 p.m., the children returned to Roxbury. To nobody's surprise, Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, 40, and Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 30, had slipped across the nearby New York State line and got married in suburban White Plains. The day had been marred by a tragic interlude: Russian Princess Mara Scherbatoff, 48, New York bureau chief of France's weekly Paris Match, was killed when her car, pursuing the lovers down a hairpin road, rammed a tree. But now, at Playwright Miller's rural retreat...
...Buenos Aires the attackers, mostly former noncommissioned officers, stormed the downtown War Arsenal and the neighboring Army Mechanics' School. Meeting brisk fire coolly directed by the school's commander, Colonel Pizarro Jones, they fell back and were captured. In suburban Lanús, armed civilians attacked a police station; 18 of them and the two retired army officers who commanded them were executed on the spot...
...minds, which last week flared with new intensity throughout the free world. The Soviet policy of smiles was picking up mileage and momentum by the minute, relaxing freedom's watchfulness, exacerbating the free world's differences, as the urgency of fear was removed. In suburban Hyattsville, Md., First Secretary Alexander Zinchuk of the Soviet embassy made a jovial pitch for a U.S.-Russian bridge across the Bering Strait so man could ride by road and rail from Hyattsville to the Kremlin. Back home in the U.S.S.R. Nikita Khrushchev feted Premier Guy Mollet of France as the "flying swallow...
Last week, at 68, ten years after he returned to Washington to speak for free China, Wellington Koo delivered his last message and retired to live in suburban Westchester County, outside New York. From John Foster Dulles, who first met Koo at the 1919 Versailles Conference, where Dulles was a junior member of the U.S. delegation and Koo headed the Chinese delegation, went a warm letter. Koo's replacement: Hollington K. Tong, 69, member of the first class graduated by Columbia University's School of Journalism, China's propaganda minister in World War II, Nationalist China...
...last week. Dr. Clarence A. Mills, of a father-daughter research team (the other member: Dr. Marjorie Mills Porter), reported that "tobacco smoking is unquestionably and significantly related to increased lung-cancer incidence" and also that "heightened lung-cancer rates in every smoking category are further sharply increased for suburban Cincinnati men traveling 12,000 miles or more a year in motor traffic...