Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charged, he served the Kremlin as a spymaster in a ring that operated in the U.S. and Europe for more than a decade. Among the spies working under him in the U.S., charged Justice, was an immigrant named Jacob Albam, who came from Soble's home town of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania. Arrested in Manhattan the same morning the FBI closed in on the Sobles, Albam, 64, was still clinging to his not-guilty plea last week, but he, too, seemed on the verge of deciding to change his mind...
...above arid desert. Its cities range from modern Casablanca (pop. 700,000) with its bustling port and gleaming white apartment buildings, to the walled Arab city of Fez (pop. 180,000) with its ancient university buildings and its twisting casbah streets too narrow for automobiles, to the sprawling desert town of Marrakech (pop. 215,000) where ragged Berbers bring their camels to market, and snake charmers pitch their brown tents in the city square...
With effective assistance from Houston's strong corps of Minute Women, the right-wingers have waged a continuous war against teaching about the United Nations or using any UNESCO material in the schools. They succeeded in eliminating the annual U.N. essay contest, flooded the town with anti-U.N. literature, e.g., "United Nations Seizes, Rules American Cities." They have denounced such speakers as former Rhodes Scholars Stringfellow Barr and Clarence Streit, partly because some citizens decided that the Rhodes program (launched in 1903) was nothing but a scheme to promote British rule of the world. They also kept...
...remember," said Fazio last week, "when people wouldn't have walked across the street to bowl. I'll bet a plugged nickel to a $5 bill that I can walk down any street in any town and somebody'll recognize me. Even the children are coming into the game...
Clean Break. In Chicago, Clarence Green, Mayor of Dalton. Ga., explained that he gave it all up and went to work in a Chicago paper factory because he "just got sick and tired of small-town politics...