Word: urbes
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...lively Londoner, no explanations are really necessary. Talking the flip jargon that has become basic English for teenagers, jet setters and indeed any knowledgeable adult striving to maintain the illusion that he is at least young in heart, the switched-on London bird or beatle calls his urb "super," "fab," "groovy," "gear," "close" or "with it." "Ready, steady, go. There's a Whole Scene Going," chirps Cathy McGowan, 22, moderator on ITV's Ready, Steady Go show and London's favorite "dolly" of the moment, doing a deliberate "sendup" (takeoff) on the title...
...year-also make poverty unknown in Los Alamos. Most families have two cars and could afford better housing if it were available. Because of their comfortable incomes, uniform backgrounds and treelined, planned neighborhoods, some Los Alamos citizens have referred to their community as "a suburb without an urb...
...successfully reversed this desertion. Hartford's biggest retailer, G. Fox, added a $12 million annex to its store just across the street, and Korvette's decided to occupy a long-vacant store near by. The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co., which had been planning to move to the sub urb of West Hartford, changed its mind and built a graceful, green-glass ship of a building, connected to the plaza by a bridge, that is the handsomest store that had just spent a million dollars on redecoration. But Wallace's plan was voted unanimously, and even though it is still...
Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum is strictly from Eastern urb and suburb, but went into training for the story by camping out at Jackson Hole, Wyo., and some of his delight rubs off in the telling. Among correspondents who supplied material for the story are a number of old campers. Kenneth Froslid of the Chicago bureau, a camper since the age of five, originally proposed the cover after camping out on an 8,200-mile cross-country Volkswagen tour with his wife. He has since graduated to the amenities of an Apache Chief camping trailer. Bob Wood, who filed from...
Professor J. W. White, who is president of the Archaeological Institute will read a paper before the meeting on the Tzetztian Scholia, on the Aves of Aristophanes in Cod. Vat. Urb." Dr. Charles Peabody '90, of Cambridge will read a paper on "Some Prehistoric Stone Ornaments of America," Dr. G. H. Chase '96, of Southborough, will read a paper on "Shield Devices Among the Greeks" and Mr. Edward Robinson '79, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will read a paper entitled "The Magical Papyri as a Source of our Knowledge of Greek Life...