Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home for the World. The delegates to the World Council's second Assembly had come from 48 countries to Chicago's suburb, Evanston (pop. 73,641), where comfortable houses sit well back from the elm-shaded streets and unfenced lawns flow comfortably together like the town's friendly citizens. Evanston has the Garrett Bible Institute, Northwestern University, the new headquarters of Rotary International and teetotal Prohibition. Last week homey Evanston was doing its best to make a home for Christianity...
Since last spring the little Quaker farming town of West Branch, Iowa (pop. 769) had been getting ready for the 80th birthday of its famous son. The Lions International club pushed a campaign to get the town's modest homes gleaming with new paint, and front yards trimmed to the quick. Work was rushed on the new elementary school so that the famous guest could dedicate it. The night before the big day, the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators...
...Hamburg (pop. 1,600,000), a strike of 13,000 transport and utilities workers left West Germany's largest city without gas, water, buses and streetcars for nine days. In Bavaria, 130,000 metal workers downed tools. Nine hundred thousand Ruhr metal workers demanded a 10-pfennig (2.5?) hourly increase...
While China suffered its worst floods in a century (TIME, Aug. 16), its satellite, Tibet, was suffering too. At the monastic trade center of Shigatse (pop. 20,000), second-biggest city in Tibet, midsummer torrents had turned the Nyang Chu River into a foaming cataract. Lake Takri Tsoma overflowed and a wall of water swept into Shigatse (altitude: 12,800 ft.). flooding shrines and drowning sacred statues. The flood undermined the ancient Palace of the Western Paradise, official residence of the 16-year-old Panchen Lama, whom 3,000,000 Tibetans accept as a spiritual reincarnation of the Buddha...