Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skilled labor and a waterside location with access to the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence Seaway. Perhaps the only additional asset that Detroit needs is a renaissance of the spirit expressed in the city's double-barreled motto, adopted after a fire nearly wiped out the little town of Detroit in 1805: Speramus meliora. Resurget cineribus-"We hope for better things. It will rise from the ashes...
...ranking aide and favorite brother of Georgia's Governor Marvin Griffin and as mayor of their home town of Bainbridge (pop. 7,562), cigar-chomping, lapel-grabbing Robert Alwyn ("Cheney") Griffin, 43, is at ease in almost any Georgia setting, from columned plantation to smoke-heavy hotel room. But last week Cheney Griffin suddenly discovered himself in a setting that made him ill at ease. Indicted on charges of accepting a $1,500 political bribe, Cheney taxied down to Atlanta's Fulton County jail, posted $2.500 bond, then skipped off to await his trial next month...
...excitement: a furious feud between Commissioner John Stevens, 47, Wichita-born, of Lebanese descent, spokesman for the Lebanese-American colony known as "Syrians," or "West Side Indians," and City Commissioner Alfred Howse, 58, Wichita-born businessman, investment broker, real-estate executive, who lives on the classier East Side of town...
...troupe he once called on backstage at the Bolshoi. "A master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension," said a Western ambassador. In a face softened by comfortable living, his courtly smile was matched by the appraising eye of a riverboat gambler. Once, when Khrushchev & Co. were out of town, he accepted a toast to the Soviet government: "I can drink to that. Tonight I am the Soviet government...
With voting day only two weeks off, Premier Johannes Strijdom last week carried South Africa's election campaign to his sun-baked home town of Nylstroom in central Transvaal. Awaiting him in Nylstroom's town hall was a capacity crowd of leathery Boer farmers, their bosomy wives, and teen-age Nationalist Youth Bunders waving the flag of the old British-hating Transvaal Republic. From the platform a local politico shouted out an introduction in Afrikaans: "Our candidate is the lion of the North. Tonight you are going to hear him roar...