Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his grandfather Lew inherited charm; from his father he inherited the restless drive that has kept him chugging like a jackhammer for 53 years. Lew was born in the little Arizona town of Bisbee, soon moved to Douglas, which his father had named in "the professor's" honor. When Lew was six, the family pushed on again to the Nacozari mine in Mexico, where his father got the nickname of "Rawhide Jim" because of his practice of repairing mine machinery with rawhide. As superintendent of the mine, Rawhide Jim cut wages, drove his men hard, and contemptuously ignored...
...Railroader Gray, whose late father was president of the Union Pacific, is a crack organizer who, as a red-tape-hating general in World War II, won the high respect of both Eisenhower and Omar Bradley for his ability to push rail lines into one side of a European town almost before German forces could retreat out the other...
Flushing Meadow was a suburban pastoral of cold wintry sunlight and bare lonely trees swaying in a fitful wind. The building which housed the world's town meeting lay strangely isolated in the brownish-green emptiness of dead lawns. Inside, the modernistic public lobby was filled with people who had come for a quick look at history before the Second General Assembly of the United Nations adjourned. A group of children clustered around a counter as excitedly as though it displayed candy and comics rather than U.N. literature. A tall, blond boy jumped up & down. "Sammy," he cried, "Sammy...
...Assembly?" the woman persisted. Several names were suggested. She shook her head: "Oh, leave it. I'm not going to vote for anybody I don't know." Right away, it appeared, Chinese voters were having the kind of trouble Western voters had known since elections got beyond town-meeting stage...
...manager called the mayor, who just then was sitting, racking his brains over the water crisis, in a tub containing two meager inches of water. When Pieter's manager offered to help, the mayor leaped at the chance, bundled the boy into a car and drove round the town. Finally Pieter spotted some moonbeams. A skeptical but desperate city council set their engineers to work...