Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After doing his best to keep his hometown troubles out of the papers (he urged newsmen not to cover the school integration story for three days), New Orleans' handsome Mayor de Lesseps ("Chep") Morrison made news himself in Manhat tan. In town to attend a conference of U.S. mayors, in a trice he found himself in the Stork Club and the clinging arms of Perennial Siren Zsa Zsa Gabor. Later, asked what they had talked about, Zsa Zsa seemed surprised at the question. "Of course," she said, "we talked about the problems of the South...
...darling of the local rooters who packed Worcester Memorial Auditorium, was fairly cold, although he did rack up 14 points in the first half. When he finally sank one of his fabled shots after 6:35, the fans practically tore the place apart. The same spectators ignored another hometown boy, Crimson captain Bob Bowditch--with some reason, Bowditch couldn't buy a basket, but he did contribute the best defensive efforts of the night, pulling several steals and blocking his usual number of shots...
...NASA's space flight boss, Silverstein directs the planning of U.S. space missions, the payload design and development, and the research operation once a satellite or probe has been fired. His qualifications are ample. Born in Terre Haute, Ind., Silverstein graduated from hometown Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1929 and, although he had several better-paying offers, took an engineering job with NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, at $2,000 a year. Starting at Virginia's Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, he helped design the first full-scale wind tunnel, moved to Cleveland's Lewis...