Word: home-town
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...Boulder, Colo., the home-town folks cheered Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 38, on hand to dedicate a new $195,000 community swimming pool. Following Carpenter's brief speech, Mayor John P. Holloway rose to say: "When you open a highway, you cut a ribbon. When you build a building, you lay a cornerstone. In the case of a pool, the only way . . ." Thus, done with formalities, the mayor and three Boulder officials threw the triple-orbiting spaceman -trim grey suit, white shirt, striped tie and all-headlong into the water, manfully jumped in after...
...Louis' durable, blonde Carol Hanks. 19: the National Indoor singles, doubles and mixed doubles tennis titles-a clean sweep-at Longwood Covered Courts in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Carol teamed with Chauncey Steele III in the mixed doubles and with home-town Friend Mary Ann Eisel, 16, in the doubles, needed only 36 min. to dust off Mary Ann, 6-2, 6-2. in the singles final...
LOCALITIS is a disease familiar to local newspapers. In its most harmless form it is home-town boosterism, an understandable concern with the near and familiar. "A dog fight in a Denver street is more important than a war in Europe," was the way Denver's crusty old Editor Fred G. Bonfils...
...months to sound their best when they come to the city. But last autumn, Cleveland joined in the battle of the bands that marked the opening of Manhattan's new Philharmonic Hall and came away the master of the great orchestras from Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Home-town fans, who had been ardently convinced of Cleveland's orchestral supremacy for years, were suddenly confronted with astonishing international applause. London and Paris had already acclaimed the Cleveland-and New York was chiming...
...finally did wake up after the Rose Bowl game, the N.F.L. Champion Green Bay Packers seemed to have the inside track. "I'm from Green Bay," VanderKelen said, "and every boy in town dreams of playing one day for the Packers." But pros play for pay, not for home-town loyalty. Reasoned VanderKelen: "I think an athlete would be seriously handicapped playing for his home-town team-especially in a town as small as Green Bay. He'd be faced by unusual pressures...