Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenge. Now, though, it seems that a formidable contender for power and popularity has emerged on the Philippine political scene: his wife. Imelda Marcos, 46, who was elected Miss Manila in 1953, was appointed last week general manager of Manila, which was enlarged by the incorporation of its suburban towns. As ruler of the nation's wealthiest and most populous (5.5 million) area, Mrs. Marcos is now the second most influential politician in the Philippines after her husband...
...Sarah can afford a somewhat more comfortable lifestyle. For the past five years she has shared a home with her widowed mother, who is now 73. Last spring they gave up their cluttered apartment in Boston's Back Bay and moved to a six-room house in suburban Weston. Sarah has an office containing shelves of records, tapes and books and a butcher-board worktable. The closets full of dresses bearing such labels as Thea Porter of London indicate that Caldwell is more concerned about her looks than seems apparent. Her mother's meals are brought...
...suburbs or to private schools that it is making city public schools more segregated than ever. In a Manhattan speech last week marking the 75th anniversary of the College Entrance Examination Board, Coleman offered his solution: let any student transfer to any school he chooses within an urban-suburban metropolitan area-provided only that the new school has fewer students of his own race than his old school...
...become a consuming fantasy of many politicians. One scenario that is talked about has her asking for another leave, this time to embark on a foreign trip that would take her to the United Nations, Geneva, Rome and, finally, Madrid, where she would complete her "recovery" in the suburban quinta where she and Juan Perón lived for most of his 18-year exile...
...following the second car; two officers were killed. "The police are nervous," was one government officer's explanation. The next day, a Spanish military attache in France was critically wounded after being shot three times in his chest and stomach when he answered the door of his Paris suburban apartment. A French leftist group named after Juan Paredes Manot-one of the five executed terrorists-claimed credit for the shooting...