Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intentional pass failed to pay off for Tufts in the last of the eighth when the Crimson scored its winning run. Bob Hastings walked, and after catcher Weiss made a fine catch of Fisher's foul pop, Hastings went to third on Botsford's line double to left...
Good Investments. Born in the British Columbia mining town of Moyie (pop. 225), McMahon started as a hard-rock diamond-driller, drifted to Alberta and formed his own drilling company there before the province's oil play began. He took an option on a promising piece of Alberta land and brought in one of the province's first major oil wells at Leduc in 1947. Since then, he has plowed his oil earnings into a steadily successful search for more oil and gas. His companies now own or control hundreds of wells, hold leases on some...
...best-run towns in the U.S. is Midland, Mich., a trim, 50-year-old company town (pop. 24,000) where 86% of the houses are owned by employees of Dow Chemical and Dow Corning. In the 1952 presidential election, Midland boasted the highest voter turnout (81%) of any similar-sized U.S. community...
Japan, a land of startling contrasts. Its capital, Tokyo, is as big (pop. more than 8,000,000), bustling and gaudily expensive a city (a first-rate geisha party runs up to $60 per person) as any on earth. Yet a few miles outside, Japan goes back centuries to a bygone world of tiny, meticulously tilled farms, tranquil lotus ponds and brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine...
When Paul Richer, 21, walked into the dark brick junior high school in little (pop. 962) Riceville, Iowa last fall, he intended to throw everything he had into this first teaching job. A burly man with a Phi Beta Kappa key from the State University of Iowa, he had long wanted to teach. He had an irrepressible enthusiasm for literature and a head full of ideas on how to put his enthusiasm across. But no sooner had he completed his first few weeks than Paul Richer became the most controversial figure in town...