Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with-the-wind speech at the annual town-gown day in Big Spring, Texas (pop. 24,800), Johnson dashed off a list of likely congressional specifics: a depressed-areas bill, "an atomic merchant marine," bigger water development programs for the West, "a bold housing program," "jet-age" airport facilities, "courageous urban renewal," a mild antirackets labor law like Kennedy-Ives, outer-space exploration, "a consistent policy for Latin America," "bold, new, imaginative" foreign policies. He hinted at new attacks upon Administration hard-money policy ("We need to face up to the high interest rates which are slowing the needed growth...
...younger Jim was born in Cambridge and has left here only twice: to go across the world with the Army Finance Corporation and to follow the B.C. football team to the Sugar Bowl game. "Cambridge," he claims, "is a fine town. People mind their own business, yet they have pretty good I.Q's: when I talk to someone here, I get more than a 'yup' or a 'nope' out of him. And half of the dishwashers are in town to study characters for their novels...
...after a hard day's work when the big news came over their old radio. The rice soup grew cold while they listened; then as excited neighbors poured from their houses, the brothers hurried upstairs to dress up for the occasion. And in Sesto San Giovanni, a little town near Milan, Angelo Roncalli's sister Assunta was out buying bread when the news reached her. "My God, little Angelo!" she gasped. "What's the matter?" asked the baker, and Assunta explained: "My brother's just been elected Pope. He will have to work so hard...
...written a five-volume history of the 16th century saint, who spent years as archbishop of Milan, near Pope John's own town of Sotto il Monte...
...Reluctant Debutante. Mayfair never seemed quite so fair, or so gay, as when Rex Harrison and his wife Kay Kendall do the town...