Word: 250th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigate. I knew when I had finished that I had bettered three and a half hours, but the sheets the people were looking at told me even better news. My time of 3:23:50 had earned me 138th. I was astonished. I thought I had come in about 250th...
...beyond this, the city has good reason to pick a fair as its 250th birthday present to itself. For what the city has really accomplished is urban renewal under the guise of a carnival, with the Federal Government paying a portion of the bill. Already the $158 million fair has turned 147 acres of downtown San Antonio "from slum to jewel box," as Texas' Governor John Connally puts it, provided the city with a permanent new $13.5 million Civic Center and contributed an impressive symbol of progress in the 622-ft.-high Tower of the Americas, tallest observation tower...
Milhaud had delivered Music for New Orleans, a 30-minute orchestral piece commissioned for last week's symphony concert in honor of the city's 250th anniversary. After studying it and rehearsing it, Conductor Torkanowsky pronounced it "a disappointment" and substituted Milhaud's 1923 composition...
...represented in our concert only by his best work," Torkanowsky said in a public statement. "We do not propose to present him at what might be his worst." Furthermore, he said, the new work "would be a disappointment to the audience and to the spirit of the 250th anniversary...
Five different players scored for the Crimson in the rough, sloppy game, Coach Cooney Weiland's 250th college victory...