Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other reasons for the glacial pace of the talks. One is that the North Vietnamese clear even the most minuscule matters with Hanoi. They even had to exchange twelve cables before they were permitted to move from their expensive digs at the Hotel Lutetia to a 20-room suburban villa once occupied by the late French Communist boss Maurice Thorez. Hanoi hesitated out of fear: What would the Chinese Communists think of North Viet Nam's delegates moving into a villa owned by the openly pro-Soviet French Communists...
Anti-Panic Squad. Early last week, they finally arrived within shelling distance of their target. Setting up headquarters with his 105-mm.-howitzer battery in a suburban Anglican churchyard, Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, head of Nigeria's 3rd Marine Commando Division ("The Scorpions"), took full charge of the attack, code-naming his immediate area "Hell Sector," the Port Harcourt airport "Iron Sector" and the main area of town "Hate Sector." As federal howitzer, mortar and artillery shells began pounding the fringes of the city at three-minute intervals, young Ibo tribesmen dressed in clean white shirts and ties slapped "Anti...
...first time at Paris' Orly Airport in the velvety clutches of Mother Anne Ford Uzielli, 25, and Aunt Charlotte Ford Niarchos, 27. Tiny Alex roundly ignored eager photographers, but perked up later at Grandma's house: Mme. Sybil Billotte's 14-room estate in suburban Senlis. The tyke and his doting entourage (including nanny, two bodyguards and chauffeur) then motored to Brussels, where he and Auntie Charlotte hopped a plane to New York, the last leg of his jet-set journey...
...command, Cyrus R. Vance, are thinking of leasing apartments and sending for their wives. Hanoi's 39-member delegation, too, gives every sign of settling in. Last week, to escape the fishbowl atmosphere of the Hotel Lutetia on the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese moved into a comfortable suburban villa in Choisy-le-Roi owned by the French Communist Party...
Deep Discontent. Serious trouble began when students rioted in Paris' Latin Quarter against the shutdown of the suburban Nanterre branch of the University of Paris, closed by the authorities in fear of disturbances caused by student agitators. The upheaval soon spread across much of the country, fired by the deep discontent that permeates France's system of higher education. Compared with the U.S., few youths in France get to universities at all, and those who do find themselves immersed in a selerotic setup that educators insist was out of date in Napoleon's time...