Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arriving from New York radioed that he was lost in a thick haze somewhere near Los Angeles. At 3:54, as the pilot began feeling his way down through the haze, the plane caught one wing tip on the crest of a slope, and plunged into a hillside in suburban Whittier Heights. The crew of three and all 26 passengers aboard were killed. The plane was a war-surplus C46 Curtiss Commando, operated by a nonscheduled carrier-the fourth non-sked C46 to crash in four months...
...with Us?" Early on the appointed night, Batista returned from the old colonial seaport town of Matanzas, where he had made a routine campaign speech. At his suburban estate, Kuquine, he told his pretty wife Marta that he was tired, and went to bed. Around 2 a.m., four officers called for him. He dressed in the dark; there was a shaky laugh when a nervous aide who thought he was holding the chief's jacket tried to help him slip his arms into a pair of trousers. The conspirators climbed into a car and headed for Camp Columbia...
Owners of Harvard Square barber shops have not yet decided whether they will follow the example of most Boston and suburban shops and raise haircut prices to $1.15 next week...
...years after Hoppe's feat, Masako Katsura, who grew up in a suburban Tokyo billiard parlor run by her brother-in-law, won the Japanese women's straight-rail championship. Then 16, she soon caught the eye of Kinrey Matsuyama, the Japanese Hoppe, who was runner-up, on his last U.S. visit in 1936, for the three-cushion title. Contrary to the slanderous old saw, Masako's proficiency at billiards seemed to Matsuyama a sign of anything but a misspent youth. Coached by him to perfection in the basic and fancy three-cushion shots (see cut), Masako...
Numerous undergraduates who ordered two party or suburban service last fall were told then they would receive it as soon as new outside cables could be installed to take care of the demand, "probably this spring." But Couming said government restrictions on metal as well as "unsatisfied post-war demands" have prevented this...