Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DISASTERS "The Gas Is Leaking" About 1:30 one afternoon last week, the phone rang in William J. Maas's office in downtown Rochester. His eight-year-old daughter, Mary Anne, was calling from their home out in suburban Brighton...
...protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family in suburban Hillsborough (which he had rented at a reported $250 a day in preference to a downtown hotel suite...
...expert is sure they can't go much higher Without killing off the taxpayer. In the current Saturday Evening Post, Roswell Magill, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury and now president of the nonprofit Tax Foundation, describes in painfully homely terms the tax burden already carried by "Henry Suburban," an average income earner who commutes to work. Henry knows all about his heavy income tax and social security. But his life is also plagued by hidden taxes he rarely thinks about...
Mother with Crystal Ball. In 1936, in a bleak stone villa in London's suburban Kingston Hill, Farouk, a tall, trim boy of 16, got a long-distance call from Cairo. It was his mother, Queen Nazli. "My son," she sobbed, "you are King...
Under the Pillows. Johannesburg has always been a rowdy place. It began as a mining camp. But as the city has grown, throwing up tall buildings and sending a tide of suburban homes rolling across the surrounding veld, crime has grown with it. Today, the city's 350,000 whites fear its 500,000 natives; and this fear is reciprocated. Johannesburg is probably the tensest city in the world to live in. Altitude (5,750 feet) and glare (Johannesburg gets more sunshine than the Riviera) increase the tension. The dry air crackles with fear...