Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done by a tiny (5 ft. i in., 140 Ibs.) U.S. district judge named Ronald Davies, who had arrived in Little Rock from Fargo, N. Dak. only nine days before to take the bench of a judge who had retired. Curt, cool Judge Davies, 52, son of a small-town North Dakota' newspaper editor, got his law at Georgetown University, and practiced in Grand Forks (pop. 32,500) until President Eisenhower appointed him to the bench in 1955. Davies took just six minutes to order the school board to go ahead with its plans despite Governor Faubus. Said...
...would be no reprisals against the demonstrators. Because of engine trouble, his plane did not take off as scheduled, and his party returned for another night to their hotel. That night, notes slipped under their doors said that within minutes after the French officials were presumed to have left town, most of the petitioners had been rounded up and jailed. Furious, Pineau demanded of his embarrassed hosts that they release the prisoners. Before he left, this was done-but what has happened to them since, nobody outside knows...
...southern Algerian garrison town of Colomb-Béchar one morning last week crept a strange train on an expensive errand. Its locomotive, heavily armored, was preceded by six freight cars loaded with sandbags. Its average speed on its way to Ain-Sefra, another garrison town 170 miles to the northeast, was a hesitant 13 m.p.h. Whenever it reached a bridge, invariably a bridge thrown up temporarily by French Army engineers-it slowed down to a walk...
...Angel" is a monster. Her real name is Angelica Deverell, and as the reader first meets her in a grubby, turn-of-the-century English small town, it is possible to mistake her for just another awkward young girl idly dreaming of escape. But quickly and chillingly it becomes clear that Angel is one of those rare and frightening people who take their dreams literally, cling to them even in the high noon of growing up, and are ready to lie, cheat or step over corpses to make their fancies come true. Angel dreams of being beautiful, clever, successful, beloved...
...Gaspard's aunt, put in charge of the boy because his parents are unsolid citizens who ragtag about the countryside peddling neckties. A mightily mundane soul, the aunt has lofty plans for Gaspard-was not one of his ancestors mayor of Lominval, and another chief of the town's wolf-exterminating brigade? But the never-never land claims the boy; sent into the forest to gather mushrooms, he is soon lost to Lominval and launched on a mad, careering plunge of adventure...