Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 23 years in Congress, South Carolina's tall, grey-thatched James Prioleau Richards, 61, looks longingly towards the end of the year, when he will relinquish his House seat, go back to his 500-acre cattle farm at Heath Springs (pop. 700), there "lie down on my back and look up at the moon and wonder what's up there." Last week, while the State Department gasped and the Defense Department groaned, Dick Richards decided the Administration was reaching for that same moon and asking too many sixpence in foreign aid next year...
...Forever Blowing Bubbles. As a civil servant now, subservient to the New Delhi government, he has to struggle along on a tax-free stipend of only $1,000,000 and an expense account of half as much, as autocratic democratic head of the state of Hyderabad (pop. 19 million). In tune with the tight times and his penny-pinching ways, he keeps his fleet of Cadillacs and other expensive cars in a garage and rides around in a remodeled 1934 Ford. And with a family of three wives, 42 concubines, 33 children, 40 grandchildren and an estimated 3,400 servants...
Isfahan province (pop. 1.3 million) has by now vaccinated 750,000 people in towns and villages, is gradually reaching the rest of the settled inhabitants plus the estimated 200,000 nomadic herdsmen. The first four months of 1956 have brought a pleasant payoff: not a single case of smallpox reported, though epidemics have broken out as usual in several surrounding provinces...
...After waiting 3½ months for their pay the 23 schoolteachers of Avoca, Pa. (pop. 4,000) went on strike, gave 568 students an unscheduled holiday...
...Real Loud." When Welk and his accordion first came out of Strasburg. N. Dak. (pop. 800), his music was brash and noisy. A farm boy of Alsatian descent (he still has a faint Germanic accent absorbed from his parents), he learned to play "real loud" at barn dances. One of his fellow musicians used to protect himself from the Welk blare by putting cotton in his ears. Welk toured with small combos around Yankton...