Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faltering wife into the vice president's chair, then quickly, one hand on the Bible, swore to defend the constitution. Outside, thousands of members of the Peronista Women's Party chanted: "Viva Evita, the vice president!" But Evita slipped away to return to the presidential estate in suburban Olivos. Peron swore in his new cabinet, reviewed a parade of cavalry and foot soldiers (mechanized forces were left in barracks to save gasoline), waved briefly from his balcony to 100,000 cheering descamisados, and hurried to Olivos to be at his wife's side...
...Paris police waited no longer. They roused Editor Stil out of his suburban house, popped him into jail for "inciting to public demonstrations, armed or otherwise." Undismayed, Stil smuggled stories out of jail, but his biggest story ("Ridg-way . . . has entered a Paris in a state of siege") was lost to his readers. At 4:30 a.m. police descended on L'Humanité, confiscated 45,000 copies and seized others that had been distributed. The charge against Editor Stil was changed to a graver one (provocation to violence), with a maximum penalty of five years in prison...
Since his ordination 23 years ago, William C. Kernan has made a name for himself as an Episcopal priest. In addition to his parish duties as assistant to the rector of the Church of St. James the Less in suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., Father Kernan has appeared as a religious spokesman on frequent radio and TV programs. Most recently he has been leading a fight against "Communist influences" in Scarsdale's public schools. Last week, after preaching at the morning service, 52-year-old High Churchman Kernan told his rector that he did not consider himself an Episcopalian any more...
...Schneider, the patient, amiable No. 2 barber at the shop in Paris' suburban Rue Chevreuse, was a man slow to anger. The first time he found his luncheon rice spiced with crushed electric-light bulbs, he put it down to accident. The following week his good wife Madeleine once again garnished the rice in his lunch box with glass, and added a few carpet tacks. Léon began to wonder, and asked his boss about it. "I don't meddle in other people's affairs," said the boss...
With the punctuality of a suburban commuter catching the 8:01, the 13,500-ton U.S. cruiser Saint Paul one morning last week slipped through the early morning fog into the North Korean port of Kojo...