Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time for Sergeants. In Norfolk, during a 24-hour period, a police accident investigator was injured in an accident en route to the scene of an accident, an out-of-town policeman was hurt in a collision, and a police hit-and-run investigator was hit by a hit-and-run driver...
Children hawked Confederate pins in the lobby of Houston's Music Hall, banners and paper hatbands urged the selection of the evening's speaker as President of the U.S., and cops sprouted like potted palms. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had come to town, infecting Houston (pop. 897,600) with a slight case of the disease, symptomized by a rash of extremism, known as Little Rock fever...
...largest city in the state of Washington," shouted the master of ceremonies one evening last week, as 2,000 residents of Richland (pop. 23,000) gathered to watch a simulated atomic explosion and a bonfire lit by an atomic fuse. Cause for celebration: after 15 years as a company town servicing the big-secret plutonium works known as the Hanford Atomic Project, Richland had voted itself out from under the paternalistic wings of the Atomic Energy Commission and General Electric, prime AEC contractor. And the vote had carried in the face of upcoming difficulties for the town...
...population. When a top "scholar-athlete" is captured by the Big Ten, another Massachusetts college, or even one of the less fussy Ivy League schools, there is that much less material available for a Harvard team. If no other college recruited, or if Harvard's drawing power in small town high schools were as great as it is at Exeter, there would be no problem...
Thirty people have been selected for the cast of Wonderful Town, this year's Drumbeats and Song production, Louise N. Bell '59, director of the show, revealed last night...