Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbus, Ohio, Kenley Players, Veterans Memorial Building: Zsa Zsa Gabor in Blithe Spirit...
Last week, with harness racers prancing toward the billion-dollar-a-year mark, with bettors in 15 cities-from New York and Baltimore to Detroit and Columbus -flocking to gaudily lit tracks, the "trots" were giving a good run to thoroughbred flat racing, which drew 34 million customers in 1960. And along with its burgeoning attendance records and parimutuel handles, harness racing had something special to boast about: its own Man o' War, a horse named Adios Butler, thought by many to be the best pacer ever...
...energetic Urbana, Ohio, Negro who sings calypso and has long been torn between his scientific talents and a burgeoning humanitarian impulse. Son of a semiskilled truck-plant laborer. Honore was the first Negro to be elected student-body president at Capital University, a Lutheran school in a suburb of Columbus, where he got his B.S. in physics and math. A 1959 trip to Castro's Cuba in a National Students Association delegation was an eye-opener: "I saw these people in the rural areas living under the most adverse conditions while the rich in the cities lived in luxury...
...fair-haired boy of U.S. conservatism. Inevitably, a boomlet began for a Goldwater place on the 1960 Republican national ticket-and Barry did little to stunt its growth. "If I were offered the vice-presidential spot on the ticket," he told newsmen at a 1959 press conference in Columbus, Ohio, "I'd have to have marijuana in my veins to say I wouldn't accept...
...every year, but, he says, there are difficulties. "Sometimes, in a school that was disappointed (by not having its applicants accepted), I can't show my face--I run into bitter principals. So I don't give the books to the same schools every year. I do go to Columbus Academy every year; they always...