Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statewide hartal, or general strike, by the Congress Party and their Socialist allies, some 10,000 dock workers left their jobs in the port of Cochin. Bazaars and factories throughout the state closed for a day. Students stayed away from school. Strikes, demonstrations and picketing erup.ted in town after town. The harried Communists, who had so often employed these same tactics themselves, seemed at a loss in dealing with them except by repression. Communist-ordered police charged with their steel-tipped lathis against demonstrators in Calicut, injuring ten. The Revolutionary Socialist Party, which had supported the Conmunists when they took...
Back home in Kingsburg (pop. 23,000), Rafe's parents smiled happily when the local radio station interrupted a music program to announce his victory. But none of the town's inhabitants were very surprised. To the home-town folks, Johnson is a Samson, Paul Bunyan and Frank Merriwell rolled into one. His smoothly muscled build (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) casts him in the mold of Jim Thorpe and Bob Mathias, great Olympic decathlon champions of the past. In high school he captained the track, basketball and football teams, is still remembered as a good infielder...
...officials in Portland let it be known that they had had enough. A conference of principals and teachers agreed that school-and parent-sponsored activities had made "serious inroads in class attendance." Superintendent J.W. Edwards informed the city that this year the "three-ring circus" is not coming to town. Among changes...
...realities of Franco's rule are presented: the steel-hard Guardia Civil, whose men garrison each small town; the squirmings of a dictator who is afraid to travel an announced route for fear of assassination; the indoctrination of the students. But for most of the villagers, gaiety and great pride overcome grimness. Author Deane is aware that there are lessons to be learned, as well as taught in Andalusia. One lesson well learned: the author's three-year-old son can handle a one-glass-a-day wine ration handily, unless someone feeds him sugar cane. When someone...
Reelin' Through the Rye. In Marshfield, Wis., Edward W. Rottscheitt paid a $50 fine and lost his driver's license for drunkenly weaving around town on a lawnmower...