Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the weight of 230 million cu. ft. behind it, came surging down the narrow ravine, smashed into the village in a wave 20 ft. high. The stone bridge was swept away. The church was cut in two, and only the tower remained standing. All but 25 of the town's 150 houses were wiped...
...maybe get a grave or two ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke's Doc Adams), and loyal, limping Deputy Clyde Diefendorfer (Gunsmoke's Chester), Marshal Dooley watches hawk-eyed over the welfare of the town's citizens, taking special pains that drunks who wander out of the saloons are courteously guided right back inside...
...there is one kind of hombre that clogs up Dooley's craw so tight he can hardly spit: the professional gambler. When Bret Maverick (James Garner) rides into town in search of buried gold, Deputy Diefendorfer has no trouble spotting him for the cardsharp he really is. "He's wearing a clean white shirt and a black necktie," explains Diefendorfer, "and he's winning, Muster Dooley." Outraged, Marshal Dooley heaves Maverick out of town, has to repeat the performances twice more when Maverick keeps sneaking back. "We're sure getting some strange breeds in Ellwood lately...
Composer Igor Stravinsky has a fierce distrust of most conductors, especially those who try to conduct his own works. But last week Stravinsky, 76, sat in the balcony of Manhattan's Town Hall and watched benignly while a slim, intense man mounted the podium and launched the first U.S. performance of Stravinsky's most recent score-Threni: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. The conductor: Stravinsky's protégé Robert Craft, at 35 one of the world's leading interpreters of avant-garde music...
...described the "comprehensive" school as one which educates "all the youth living in a town, city, or district," whether they seek job training or college preparation. Conant said that the 21,000 high schools in the country should be pared down to 9000, by eliminating small schools. He added "A high school must have a graduating class of at least 100 to function adequately...