Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...culprit. Nevertheless, said he: "We in no way condone the action of any group of students . . . to determine who should or should not attend this state-owned institution. John Clark is still enrolled here and . . . may return with no fear of further disruption . . ." Home in Odessa (pop. 29,500). John Clark announced that he would rather not go back...
Beaming citizens of Carlyle, Ill. (pop. 2,700) heartily cheered Major General William F. Dean on a visit to his boyhood home town. Brushing aside the home folks' tribute to his valor, Dean spoke sharply: "Anybody who's dumb enough to get captured shouldn't be called a hero...
...tiny (pop. 100) community of Blue Hole, tucked away in the Clay County mountains of Kentucky, everyone knows Widow Sarah Collett, and everyone calls her "Aunt." She is a kindly, grey-haired woman of 75 who has so many kinfolks in town that she can claim to be the grandmother, great-aunt, or at least a cousin of every boy and girl in the local one-room school. It was only natural that, with all her relatives, Aunt Sarah should be worried about the school...
Through the big doorways of a white auditorium at Claremont, Calif, (pop. 7,000) one day last week, the presidents of three thriving colleges-E. Wilson Lyon of coeducational Pomona, Frederick Hard of Scripps College (for women) and George Benson of Claremont Men's College-filed in solemn procession for a special ceremony. As they do every two years, the three were meeting to proclaim which of them would serve as next provost of a fourth college, the Claremont Graduate School. This year, it happened to be President Hard's turn to take over; but the ceremony itself...
Deep in the Illinois farm country, 150 miles south of Chicago, more than 200 industrialists, bankers, engineers and newsmen gathered at little (pop. 3,000) Tuscola last week for the dedication of a $50 million, 500-acre petrochemical plant. Where corn stalks had rustled only two years before, giant cylindrical storage tanks marched row on row; instead of silos, towering fractionation columns glistened in the sun. The new chemical complex to make dozens of products from natural gas was startling in another way. It is 60% owned by the second-largest U.S. liquor company-National Distillers Products Corp...