Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagah, a little town on the grand trunk highway between Amritsar and Lahore on the Pakistan side of the border, armed Baluchi troops, all certified Moslems from the frontier territory of Baluchistan, called a loud halt to travelers trying to go through the border. A mile down the road, at Atari, armed Dogras, who are a Punjabi Hindu tribe, searched and checked all Pakistan-bound vehicles. The mile between the two posts was no man's land. On the Pakistan side, just behind an improvised guardhouse, a bulldozer was digging graves for Moslem bodies which arrived from the India...
...tourists with dollars, a drink costs as little as 25? and a five-course dinner only 80?. American cigarettes come to 11? a package, Argentine steak 25? a lb., a taxi ride across town 10?, a shoe shine 1½?. Outside the capital, tourists can live in a first-class hotel for $1.50 a day, with meals...
...more generous," Bombois explains, "when I let myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent and gave him a drubbing. The villagers knocked out three of my teeth and ran me out of town. All I had in my pocket was three francs, and of that I had to pay a doctor two francs 50 centimes for mending my jaw. I gave up wrestling...
...that. Now they write songs for publishers. You could write a song about 'My Dear Old Mother' or 'I Love You' in a way that seems like terrible corn today. But today songwriters have become too selfconscious. They are afraid of being hooted out of town for writing that kind of thing. Actually, you know," he added in his scratchy, rapid-fire tenor, "corn of itself is always good. If it's bad, it's just bad writing...
Last week Mrs. Melius (who has no children of her own) went back to being a housewife again. The taxpayers of tiny (pop. 53) Mount Washington, Mass, paid her $120 for her month-long vigil, and considered it a bargain. Under a Massachusetts law, every incorporated town is required to offer its citizens "an opportunity" for elementary education, or bear the cost of sending the local kids elsewhere. Parents of Mount Washington's three elementary pupils boycott the local school because the one across the state line in Hillsdale, N.Y. is bigger & better...