Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet prairie town of St. Charles, Ill. (pop. 7,700), 33 miles west of Chicago, is known mainly as the site of the state reform school. But last week its new high school science setup was the talk of visiting college teachers, who had never seen anything like it in their own institutions. Nothing so delighted the venturesome St. Charles school board, which wrested $140,000 out of the voters and another $30,000 from the town's late, crusty philanthropist, Colonel E. J. Baker (TIME, Nov. 10), for two of the dandiest classroom labs ever conceived...
...bustling copper town of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, the. High Court deliberated the fate of two native Africans, Joseph Mubanga and Fitaliano Sakeni. They were members of the Bemba tribe and converts to Roman Catholicism. Their crime: acting on orders of Catholic priests, they had persuaded other Catholic Bembas not to contribute grain to the local Bemba chief. Fined by a native court, they had taken their case to the Bemba court of appeal, which increased their fines. The district commissioner's court upheld the conviction. The two dissatisfied Bembas had finally appealed to the Northern Rhodesia High Court...
...Trader. Richardson was born in the East Texas town of Athens in 1891, the seventh son of a farmer and cattle raiser. Encouraged and coached by his father, Sid began trading, at 17 made $3,500 by shrewd cattle dealing. For a year and a half he attended Waco's Baylor University and Abilene's Simmons College, left after telling friends that he saw no reason to spend his time in the library when there was so much money to be made on the outside. He served a three-year apprenticeship in the oil business as salesman, scout...
Moody and brooding, Room at the Top looks critically at the struggle for social success in an English manufacturing town. In doing so, it not only condemns class structure, but at the same time attacks class consciousness by proving that its hero's flaw is one of fighting status rather than ignoring...
Does each student know how his senators voted on the Kennedy-Clark amendment? Does each student's home town realize the implications of a loyalty oath? Would home town newspapers print articles by Harvard students? Where is the Harvard Liberal Union? What connections do they have with the liberal unions across the country? Where is the Student Council? How do the student councils and newspapers in other colleges feel? Where are letters to congressmen? Where is the dedicated fervor and concrete action? Or is not this issue really worth the effort...