Word: cumberland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cumberland Mt. Folk Song
Tucked away in the Cumberland foothills of East Tennessee, Clinton* is an improbable place for racial crisis. Its sons fought for the North in the Civil War (Clinton has voted Republican virtually ever since). About 800 Clintonians work for Union Carbide Nuclear Co. at nearby Oak Ridge, where, as at other federal enclaves, the schools have been successfully integrated. Most of Clinton's 48 Negro families own their own homes and have long been accepted as solid, sober members of a solid, sober (and Baptist-dry) community...
...amon a clear, blue Pennsylvania Election Day, the new couple from the farm over on Route 10 stepped into the one-room,, white clapboard Cumberland Township election house outside Gettysburg. They identified themselves to an election official, and workers at the roughhewn wooden table checked their names in the record books. "Housewife."' said the listing of the woman's occupation. After her husband's name, the record read:"President of the United States."' Under the light of four naked electric light bulbs, by the heat of a small oil stove, the President of the U.S. marked...
...Lewis Gruber, 60, was named the fourth president in four years for P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent). His predecessor, William J. Halley, 58, moved down to head the finance committee. A native New Yorker, Gruber got a law degree from Tennessee's Cumberland University ('14), joined Lorillard in 1922 as a salesman. The executive shakeup. which also brought in a new advertising director, gives more company control to sales experts, less to financial and advertising advisers. Lorillard sales have dropped steadily since 1953; this year's first-quarter sales of $47 million were off $10 million...
Back home in Cumberland, Maine's cigar-chomping ex-Republican Governor Horace Hildreth, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, amiably tried to bulldoze a baby elephant, flown to the U.S. as a gift from some of Hildreth's Pakistani admirers. If Amateur Mahout Hildreth can polish up by August, his pet may accompany him then to the G.O.P. National Convention in San Francisco as an alternate to an alternate delegate...