Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running of the race of the year, the 40 million-franc Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Men in morning coats and grey cravats walked amid the drift of chestnut leaves with elegant women in Balenciaga and Dior gowns and outsize souffle hats. A few miles across town in the cavernous glass-roofed Grand Palais, thousands of other Frenchmen thronged the annual Salon de l'Auto to stare with passionate absorption at the chromium flash and gadgets of the 1959 model cars. These people, the acquisitive bourgeois society described so memorably by Balzac, were the true victors...
...morning of V-E day, 1945, ten thousand Moslems appeared in the streets of Abbas' own home town of Setif brandishing banners which read, DOWN WITH COLONIALISM, FREE MESSALI. There was a scuffle as gendarmes tried to wrest the banners away, and then, inevitably, a shot rang out. In sudden fury, bands of Moslems took off through Setif, savagely attacking every European they saw with clubs, knives and hatchets. And as word of the Setif "uprising" spread through the rugged mountains of Kabylia, bloodthirsty Berber bands, killing, pillaging and looting, set off on the warpath against the area...
When a mysterious couple rented huge Stella Maris estate in Buenos Aires' residential town of General Pacheco, the villagers were naturally curious, buzzed about who the strangers were, where they came from, what they were doing. No one could find out. Not even delivery boys got past the front gate. What went on inside the two houses, the annex, in the fine garden, the orchard, swimming pool and volleyball field? The windows were curtained; a seemingly endless stream of strangers went to and fro; and they ate enough food for a platoon. Townfolk talked about smugglers, maybe even revolutionaries...
...there are points of contact between the town and gown. Each night, students drink beer in the booths at the Tally-Ho, which are equipped with intimate green lanterns and a sign that reads "No Stags Or Loiterers." Behind the bar, English tavern scenes appear under glass panes on the wall and quart beer bottles are displayed on the liquor shelves. When a student ambles over from the shuffleboard machine to order a sloe gin fizz, the curiosity shown toward this beverage by the others at the bar may compel him to pass the drink around, but he is repaid...
...Office of the Dean of Students, it is pointed out that Bethlehem juveniles sometimes resent Lehigh freshmen who "come in and pick off the girls and take them to dances." But these youthful machinations are a minor matter, and it seems that the only apparent town-gown problem which concerns the University is that of the off-campus fraternities...