Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More power to the little town of Hennepin, Ill., and to Jones & Laughlin for locating their new plant there [July 9]. Andrews, N.C., is also a little town. It is one of the most economically stagnant areas of Appalachia. Poor they may be, but Andrews residents are proud too. Under the leadership of Mayor Percy B. Ferebee, a development corporation was formed, and $200,000 was raised. With this as bait, Andrews in two years signed a furniture company. Today, construction is under way on a factory that will employ 900-about three times as many men as there...
...egghead is hard). He loved people and in his later years was one of New York's most inveterate partygoers; yet even when surrounded by admirers he somehow seemed lonely. He was a completely sophisticated citizen of the world; yet he was at home only on his Libertyville, Ill., farm, chatting with friends in the library or expertly driving a tractor over his 70 acres. "I know every blade of grass and every tree," he once said. "I like to watch them grow, and I hate to be away from them...
Highland Park, Ill...
Rowland has been in the hospital with an ulcer. Crooks said the professor was not seriously ill, but would need to rest during the summer...
Through the green fields that surround the little town of Hennepin, Ill. (pop. 350), surveyors tramped last week under the searing Midwestern sun. Since its founding in 1831 in the great bend of the Illinois River 112 miles west of Chicago, Hennepin has been largely bypassed and ignored by the world beyond. Its main industry is duck hunting, its greatest claim to fame the burial site of the Potawatomi chief, Senachwine. Hennepin may soon long for the simple days. The surveyors are setting down the boundaries of a huge new $600 million steel mill that Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin...