Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close your story on Edward R. Murrow with the comment that TV journalism as a whole is not much good despite its Kcasional brilliance. Please do not be too lard on it. To really appreciate TV network-news shows-and TIME-a person must live in a provincial town like San Antonio. Were it not for TV and radio, we would have to wait a week to learn anything about events other than who shot whom in what tavern...
...Danville fair: "If the Democratic ticket fails to secure a resounding victory, it will be construed all over the U.S., and in fact the world, as a victory for Warren, Brownell, Eisenhower and the National Association for the Agitation of Colored People."* Shouted Candidate Almond in the "Black Belt" town of Danville: "We mean to stand and fight with that honor characteristic of Virginia, to preserve Virginia's sacred, sovereign right to govern her own internal affairs...
...little town of Calipatria (pop. 2,500), a cluster of small stores and business buildings surrounded by the truck farms of California's broiling Imperial Valley, has always had one claim to fame: it is located 184 ft. below sea level, and fondly calls itself "the lowest-down city in the Western Hemisphere." Last week Calipatria got a raise in stature, if not elevation, as it demonstrated how far the Imperial Valley has come since the old days-and Pearl Harbor days-when inflamed feelings against Japanese settlers brought persecution and bloodshed...
Five years ago this industry-transportation hub of New Jersey threatened to spin out the best remaining elements in town. Newark's long-entrenched, pie-splitting, five-commissioner government was whirling merrily along, copying notorious Jersey City in petty graft and inefficiency. In despair, big insurance companies (Newark is the U.S.'s second-largest insurance city) took out options on suburban sites, blueprinted plans to take their bulky payrolls out of the city. Then early in 1953, a handful of worried citizens, encouraged by the Newark News, sat down to map a counterattack against apathy and decay. Says...
...said: "Here, you better take this. It might be cold up there." It was. The gathering party's destination, Fort St. John, B.C., lay smothered under snowdrifts 8 ft. high. But to Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, temporary coat-dispenser and full-time oil-and-gas tycoon, a town buried under snow was no problem. Calling for "all the tractors from Dawson creek to the Alaska border," McMahon's men within hours cleared off Fort St. John's airport, spread gravel on the walks at nearby Taylor and overlaid it with miles of corrugated cardboard...