Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acapulco (pop. 10,000) turned out for Ike. The airport driveway was strewn with thousands of red carnations, the 10-mile drive to Ike's hotel, the Pierre Marques, was choked with thousands of Mexicans who rimmed the freshly whitewashed curbs, waved signs and photos and shouted greetings. Thousands more awaited Ike in the town itself when he later left his hotel for the trip to the Municipal Palace. Even on the local golf course, action stopped as Ike rode by. A sign proclaimed...
...streets rust-colored from a half century of "red dog"-slate and clinker dust-are quiet and deserted. Miners who could afford to have gone off to Paducah, Louisville, Cincinnati or even Chicago. Others, who could not, are in worse trouble than in the Depression '30s. In Kenvir (pop. 800), where the Peabody Coal Co. closed its mine a year ago and left 450 jobless, Miner Orville Gibson, 44, stays behind because he cannot afford to move his ten children. Hoping to find work in one of the smaller mines still operating, Gibson meanwhile feeds his family U.S. surplus...
...Georgia's rural woolhats, led by U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell of Winder (pop. 4,604), marched on Atlanta (pop. 510,000) to try to scare city moderates out of complying with a certain-to-come federal integration order. "I want to invite the people of Atlanta back into Georgia!" cried pone-shaped Politician-Publisher Roy V. Harris. "Our greatest battle is against the quislings...
Sometimes the British even outwit themselves. Last month electricians of the Yorkshire Electricity Board set about installing a new transformer for the small, 30-house village of Carlecotes (pop. 105). When the current was turned on, it lasted exactly 50 seconds. In that time, 72 light bulbs burst in their sockets. Three village street lamps blazed like searchlights and then burned out. TV and radio sets smoked like burning leaves. Electric motors for milking machines and a bottling plant sizzled. Water heaters exploded. The fireworks over, Carlecotes was plunged back into darkness...
Surrounded by countries that are having economic and financial difficulties, tiny Ecuador (pop. 4,000,000) is a striking exception. It has an annual trade surplus, a currency more solid than the dollar, an economy growing by an average of 9% each year. Last week Conservative President Camilo Ponce Enriquez. 47, dedicated 13 more miles of blacktop road through virgin farmland, rushed ancient Quito's $10 million face lifting (a jet airport, a new congressional palace), timed for the eleventh meeting of the Pan American Union next year. "Our people are working,'' says Ponce. "Our soil...