Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made. He harked back to the days even before he became a leader of the Teamsters' West Coast goon squad and said: "When I drove a team once, I saved up for a whole year and got a tailor-made suit, and I was the happiest man in town." Since then he was made even happier. The committee showed that a $400 Teamsters' check had been made out to a Seattle tailor for a Brewster suit in 1954. Brewster said it was a Christmas gift from grateful unionists. Date of the Christmas gift: June...
...beach where they can watch the distant pink glow of missile night firings; in the mornings, Florida fishermen bring up bits of the missiles in their nets. "Perhaps people sense that something momentous is about to occur," wrote a U.S. missileman in Alamogordo, N. Mex., a missile town whose population has increased since 1950 from...
...early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway I south of town scrambled out of their cars, in time to get away from the 400-yd. stretch of roadway that, already loose, was jogged down toward the ocean...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies - a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TIME...
...Wapshots are a once-virile New England family rapidly outliving both their affluence and influence. Like the town of St. Botolphs where they live, they once drew their power from the sea. Time was when Wapshot boys got their baptism of life by sailing round the Horn, their baptism of sex on some Pacific island. Now the shipbuilding yards are silent and old Leander, head of the family, is reduced to ferrying trippers in a worn-out tub of a boat. His world is gone and frequently he has to take refuge in dreams of his lustier youth, but Leander...