Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ministers' vague plan redefines Algeria (estimated pop. 8,750,000 Moslems, 1,200,000 Europeans) as "an integral part of France," leaves defense, foreign policy, finance and justice to Paris, provides for splitting Algeria into three to six locally autonomous territories, some predominantly European, others predominantly Moslem. As a concession to the Arabs, the "double-college" voting procedure, under which Europeans elect as many representatives as the far more numerous Moslems, was eliminated...
Honored at Jamestown, Tenn. (pop. 2,115) by his old 82nd Division (long since an airborne outfit), old (69), ailing Sergeant Alvin York whispered his thanks for a new auto equipped to carry his wheelchair (he was crippled by a stroke in 1954). Then, exhausted, Medal-of-Honorman York beckoned to friends and was wheeled from the speaker's platform while the oratory rumbled on, returned by ambulance to his home in nearby Pall Mall...
...most of the summer, Fish Creek (winter pop. 450), on the Wisconsin shore of Green Bay, is merely a scrubbed, pine-scented resort for well-heeled vacationers and fishermen. But for two weeks each August, the little town's white frame hotels are crowded with tourists, and the high school volleys forth provocative music expertly played. Last week the fifth Peninsula Music Festival was in full " swing in Fish Creek; as usual, it featured a bumper crop of modern premieres-half a dozen in two weeks...
...keep the pop-music business popping, record makers and agents nurture promising young singers with the elaborate care that race-track trainers lavish on two-year-olds. When young singers are signed, they usually get new, tongue-tempting names, are advised how to dress and behave before the great public and carted off to woo the hit-making disk jockeys in a well-traveled circuit of key pop cities: Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh (neither New York nor Washington is regarded as a reliable pop town). If, as a result, a singer "lights the board...
Though Houston has long prided itself on its Texas hospitality, another Texas tradition-gun-toting-has given the city a different kind of reputation in the past two years. With 109 murders last year, Houston (1956 pop. 760,000) had the fourth highest total of criminal homicides of any U.S. city; in 1957, with 93 murders to date, pistol-packing Houston is expected to set a new high score for gore...