Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lonely roadside seven miles from the town of Everett one day last week, a small boy waved down a passing motorist. Said eight-year-old Lee Crary solemnly: "I'm the boy they're looking for." Indeed, "they" were. For 3½ days more than 600 searchers-FBI agents, sheriff's deputies, airmen, Boy Scouts-had been frantically stalking a 20-square-mile section of the state. The Post Office had intercepted a crudely written ransom note demanding $10,000 in exchange for Lee Crary's return. Safe at last in the hands of FBI interrogators...
...career extending from On the Town to The King and I and Peter Pan, Jerome Robbins has provided more high spots and fewer letdowns than almost any other Broadway creator. And in West Side Story he has made the feet that propel the production equally the shoulders on which it rests. A master of patterned action, he has established the tensions, the instinctive hates and induced animosities, the juvenile-delinquent heroics and brooding-outcast rancors of Manhattan's native-born Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks. His switchblade rumblers jeer and snort, crouch and slither and spring. Beyond vitalizing their...
...Avenue Hotel (240 rooms) into a home for the aged, to be run by the Salvation Army, and renamed Eventide Residence. The Roman Catholic Church has just finished converting the downtown Detroiter (750 rooms) into a rest home named Carmel Hall. In Dallas, eight blocks from the center of town, the 126-room Ambassador Hotel has become a residential hotel for the aged (part of a six-state, 13-hotel chain for old people). One of the specifications of a projected home in Atlanta is that it be readily accessible to downtown shops, services and entertainment. The new installations...
...side, so they fell down together"), Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar rumbled down from the north to pillage.* When he withdrew, after raids in 598 and 587 B.C., the people of Gibeon must have found their city wrecked and the pool contaminated. Apparently they tumbled in boulders from the town's wreckage, then filled the well's broad stone shaft with earth, clay and bits of pottery...
...expedition was financed by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where he teaches Biblical Hebrew). Four feet below the surface at El-Jib Pritchard found the walls of houses, then evidence of a 26-ft.-thick wall surrounding the town, and finally the rim of a pool 37 ft. across...