Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rioja, a picturesque town of 35,-000 on the Andean slopes of northwestern Argentina, the little donkeys of the community are nicknamed plateritos, because they are just as lovable and usually just as hungry as famed Poet Juan Ramon
Allowed for the most part to forage for themselves by night, the plateritos chewed the grass of the town square down to nubbins, ate up the flowerbeds around the bandstand, munched the leaves and pink buds off the scrubby palo borracho trees that line La Rioja's streets. They followed housewives from the marketplace and sometimes quietly stole vegetables from their baskets. At newsstands they even snagged and ate the latest edition of the daily Cordoba. As the pack prospered and multiplied on such fare, fines were imposed on loose burros and a squad of "burreros" was formed...
After the number of loose burros topped 300, Mayor Adolfo Santocchi decided to act. One day last week his men rounded up 20 burros, loaded them on a truck and drove away. Twelve miles out from town the burros were set down in a green valley, sheltered by hills and watered by a cool stream. In an address to the town by soundtruck, Mayor Santocchi explained that he had sought out the valley as a refuge-suitably distant-"where our plateritos can live happily and in peace." As his men began rounding up the rest of the strays, the mayor...
...Opera performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio as part of Munich's opera festival. Said Residenztheater Restorer Sepp Huf: "We wanted to re-create the warm, glowing, golden tones of the 18th century as a present to the people of Munich on the occasion of their town's Sooth birthday. I think they will appreciate...
...good news flashed through Madison, Ind. (pop. 10,500) like summer heat lightning. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was coming to town to shoot a $2,500,000 production of James Jones's bad bestselling novel, Some Came Running. Local businessmen came running with promises not to raise prices; local police pitched in to protect M-G-M props; the country club and five hotels and motels were turned over to the movie folk. Nothing so exciting had happened to the green, hilly little Ohio River town since P. T. Barnum brought Jenny Lind to sing in the Pork Palace...