Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, so much else is going on in Florida that the peril of overemphasizing the playgrounds seems to be passing. Gainesville (pop. 32,000) has a new $600,000 Sperry Rand plant making klystron tubes...
Deep in the Bluegrass section of Kentucky, "nestling in the foothills of the Cumberlands," sits the quiet town of Danville (pop. 10,000) and tiny Centre College (enrollment 417; male, 250.) Back in 1921 Centre was even smaller; its total student body numbered about 200. Of the 31 men who came out for football in that year, however, Coach Charley Moran fashioned a team that became a gridiron power in the East. On October 29, in Harvard Stadium, his Colonels came out of their half-time prayer meeting to beat the Crimson, 6 to 0, in one of the most...
...tension had been rising for weeks. Among the Louisiana rice marshes and stands of sugar cane around the little (pop. 2,500) town of Erath, 125 miles west of New Orleans, groups of white folks gathered to pass along the latest rumors about the new pastor. Father Labbe was holding catechism classes without the usual row of empty chairs between 650 white and 75 Negro children. He was going to mix the kids all up, people whispered, by putting them in alphabetical order and having them confirmed by the bishop in that order. Father Labbe, it seemed...
...Chosen by the American Medical Association as General Practitioner of the Year: 66-year-old Dr. E. Roger Samuel of Mount Carmel, Pa. (pop. 15.000). A pipe smoker, Dr. Samuel thinks that wonder drugs are more dangerous than tobacco, said he had "too many bad results" in using antibiotics. His advice to young practitioners: collect your bills promptly, because "a person who owes you a bill is your worst enemy...
...best scenes came from the isolated mountain village of Pine (boasted pop. 250), where three embattled women tongue-lashed Murrow and a member of the school board in what was obviously a long-sought opportunity to air their very real grievances. The film wound up with a televised debate between Alabama's Senator Lister Hill and New York Representative Ralph Gwinn that contained nearly as much nonsense as the preceding 70 minutes had clarity and intelligence...