Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vapors formed a three-mile-wide cloud that loomed like fog over the area, police cruised through the streets ordering residents to clear out once more. This time almost 30,000 area residents fled. It was the largest evacuation in Ohio history, transforming Miamisburg into a temporary ghost town...
Brumage decided to apply to Harvard because of the location and the name. "I just fell in love with the location," says Brumage, whose town's main claim to fame is having included Mary Lou Retton among its residents...
Every year Harvard University opens the gates around the Yard and a new batch of immigrants become its citizens. More than 30,000 strong, including employees and students, Harvard's a small town with big city morals. While here you'll find a diversity rarely found in a community of this size and a pleasant tolerance of ideas and different modes of behavior...
...address to the graduating class of the University of Cape Town last week, Helen Suzman, the best-known opposition member of the South African Parliament, delivered a stinging rebuke to the Afrikaner-dominated government. Not only was South Africa divided into white and black worlds, she declared, but "in the vast majority of cases, the white citizens have never set foot in the world of the blacks. They have never been in a township, know nothing about the miserable conditions endured by people compelled to live in those areas. But most of all, they know nothing of the seething anger...
...rising sense of unease among South African whites is matched by a feeling that people have no control over what is happening. Many are spending less money, staying home more, not taking small children out with them. John Pegge, a Cape Town sociologist, is convinced that attitudes are changing and that "nobody is complacent anymore." He thinks that most whites have become inured to the reality of violence but that they have been impressed by the growing evidence that blacks are organizing themselves nationally, from labor groups like the Congress of South African Trade Unions to such political bodies...