Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technicolor dreams as they stood in the weed-grown parade ground of Fort Laramie, Wyo. under the flapping flag of the most important post of Western frontier days. And few who took highway 340 through the staid Amish community of Intercourse, Pa. (just three miles this side of Paradise-pop. 549) missed the chance to mail some sure-laugh postcards...
...point near the site of ancient Ur, purify it at the riverside plant, and pipe it some 450 miles across the gravel plains, the heat-parched desert and rocky ridges to the ancestral Saudi oasis that has mushroomed into the modern, air-conditioned, palace-crammed capital city of Riyadh (pop...
...that his fellow chiefs of government meet next in Canada; back in Ottawa, he presided over sessions of his brand-new Cabinet to chart Canada's new political course. Last week, in his first breathing spell since he took office, John Diefenbaker flew to home town Prince Albert (pop. 21,000), Sask. and a heart-warming homecoming from his constituents...
...toughest town in Brazil is grimy, industrial Caxias (pop. 136,000), on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Its political boss is Federal Deputy Tenorio Caval-canti, who sports a beard, a flowing cape, a revolver, a bulletproof vest and 47 wounds from various shooting scrapes. He owns real estate, a newspaper and a steel-gated house, and he has boasted that he could hold it against a siege. One morning last week while Tenorio was away, 200 troops rolled up in armored trucks, with bazookas and machine guns, and cracked the fort without a shot. Tenorio's henchmen...
...most any other campus, such a cloak-and-dagger tale would seem unbelievable. But in the last two years the whole segregation controversy has had some strange and frightening effects on the Ole Miss campus at Oxford (pop. 3,956). Last week, in a series of articles on the morale of the university, the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times told just how serious those effects have been. Of 136 assistant, associate and full professors, 31 have resigned to seek "greener and freer pastures" elsewhere...