Word: lubbock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caveat Emptor. In Lubbock, Texas, Detectives Jack Hunnicutt and Claude Keaton spotted a man selling suspicious-looking bottles for $1 each to street-corner passersby, followed him to his cache, discovered an additional 30 bottles, gave up the investigation when they proved to contain 100% tap water...
...fund-raising tour of the big-money, free-spending state of Texas, Democrat Butler grossed only about $25,000. At Lubbock, for his first speech ($10 a head, dinner included). 1,000 people were expected, but only 400 came. At Big Spring, he drew 150. Yet Texas was not entirely hostile territory. At Dallas, where Butler cut a three-foot cake (for his 50th birthday), 1,200 people showed up to eat and cheer. At Uvalde. former Vice President John Nance Garner, 86, who has puttered in privacy for 14 years amidst his pecan trees and chickens, surprisingly opened...
Except for a few short trips, Darwin emerged from Down House only for his funeral (1882) in Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was terrific: all sat in awe as the coffin of the archfiend, "borne by Huxley, Hooker, Wallace, Lubbock, James Russell Lowell, Canon Ferrar, an Earl, two Dukes, and the President of the Royal Society," was carried in amid the angelic chanting of choirboys. Fortunately, there was a living Darwin present, his son William, to give the ceremony a characteristically Darwinian touch. The abbey was very drafty, so William, "with the respect shown by all Darwins for the possible invasion...
Cline R. Paden of Lubbock, Texas went to Italy eight years ago to establish a beachhead for his Church of Christ. He found the way of the missionary hard. First there was the matter of the license, required for any enterprise in Italy, from a church to a cigar stand. Paden could not have a license because he had entered Italy as a tourist, and his application for a permanent residence permit would have to wait. Tourist Paden lost patience and put up a sign on his building in the Via Achille Papa, in the shadow of the Vatican...
...Texas, a special regional program administered by Texas Technological College in Lubbock has spread throughout twelve towns. In Pampa last year, a physician handled the seminar on the Great Books; a bottling-plant owner now heads the discussion group on world affairs. In Panhandle, an auto dealer took over the American Heritage discussion group. Total enrollment in the program last year...