Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heels of the tribesmen came a deluge of uninvited guests: more than 3,000 gawking whites from nearby East London (pop. 76,000) arrived in a raucous parade of cars, buses and lorries. They elbowed their way into the kraal, streamed through Chief Sandile's house as though it were a wax museum. When the bride, covered from head to foot in a ritual green blanket, approached the Royal Kraal, the whites charged toward her, blocking the entrance. The bridegroom, waiting anxiously for a first look at the bride he had never seen, could see only the shouting throng...
...last week, however, with newly married Bob Mathias retired from the decathlon scene, Milt, now 19, was decidedly alive and going through that again. His home town of Plainfield (pop. 42,366) was decked out for two big events, the Fourth of July and the National Amateur Athletic Union decathlon, which Plainfield had bid for and got in honor of Milt Campbell...
Technically not an epidemic site, Alabama's Montgomery County (pop. 139,000) was the first to gain recognition from federal officials as an emergency area entitled to use gamma globulin for mass inoculations. As the county's list of polio victims neared 80, the Office of Defense Mobilization allotted it 250,000 cc (67 gallons), enough to provide shots for more than 30,000 youngsters under ten. Montgomery's doctors and nurses, medical personnel from two Air Force fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning...
...week the government backed down, left decision to "a time when tensions have eased," perhaps this autumn, also made it clear that if sponsored TV is ever permitted, it will be sharply restricted by controls. Said one opponent of the commercial plan: "Surely J. Fred Muggs won't pop up again so soon...
Ghost Town. In Indianapolis, with 40,000 of a 350,000 run of new highway maps already printed, the state highway commission discovered that its printers had accidentally removed the city of Aurora (pop...