Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months reports had poured in of a high homicide rate around the tiny town of Abakaliki, about 50 miles from the Eastern Region capital of Enugu. Men would go to their farms of a morning and simply disappear; women went to market and never came home. Police found evidence that since 1954 there had been more than 100 murders in Abakaliki. But it was not until they raided Chief Obodo's house that they found the reason...
Reason for the delay: like many another city with an influential medical school and affiliated "teaching hospitals." Houston was rent by town-v.-gown dissent. Speaking for the gown, Baylor University and the burgeoning Texas Medical Center (130 acres. 1,750 beds), wanted the new Jefferson Davis built as part of the center. This, they insisted, is for patients' good as well as for doctors' convenience, and it is increasingly common practice in the better U.S. medical centers. The gown's view was supported by a majority of city councilors and county commissioners...
...bitter opposition, for the town, stood a majority of the Harris County Medical Society and its top officers. Mostly family doctors and general surgeons, they resented being frozen out of hospital staffs. were especially incensed at not being allowed to do even straightforward surgery in teaching hospitals. The county society demanded that the new Jefferson Davis rise on the hospital's present downtown site (on Buffalo Drive, four miles from the Medical Center), that the society should partly staff it and get one-third of the seats on its board. Result: every time Baylor University and the city fathers...
...Post, which combined flaring headlines and flamboyant crime stories with solid crusades for clean city government. In 1951 the Post passed the Times-Star in circulation (153,230 v. 150,489). Struggling for survival, the Times-Star twice tried to buy the third and largest paper in town, the morning Enquirer ("Solid Cincinnati Reads the Cincinnati Enquirer"), which has a morning and Sunday monopoly. But in 1956 Scripps-Howard bought control of the Enquirer for $4,059,000 (TIME...
Buffed. In Elizabethton, Tenn., 22 motorists chased two fire trucks across town and into a trap set by police, who were waiting with summonses for traffic obstruction...