Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME:Reader: As President Ramon Magsaysay paid a whirlwind visit to the Philippine province of Tarlac last week (see "Smiles in the Barrios" in FOREIGN NEWS), Correspondent James Bell, TIME'S new Hong Kong bureau chief, followed him in and out of a dust-coated Chrysler at each town and village. Alternately mauled, hugged, or decked in flowers by cheering crowds, Bell looked about him with more than a reporter's normal curiosity. Kansas-born, he had spent his formative years and attended high school (Brent School, class of '36) in the islands, where his father...
Just beyond the fairways of the Selangor Golf Club in terrorist-troubled Kuala Lumpur lie some of the best-protected residences in Malaya, including the mansion of the Chief Minister of Selangor state and the town palaces of several reigning Sultans...
From the turn of the century until World War II cut off the supply of foreign riders, six-day grinds were a big-time sport with big-town sports. The races used to pack such vast arenas as Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, and the smoke-heavy air vibrated with cheers for Italy's Maurice Brocco, Belgium's Gerard Debaets or Australia's iron man, Reggie McNamara. Song pluggers used the occasions to intone their wares. Pickpockets, purse snatchers, coat grabbers and assorted Broadway hoodlums worked overtime all week. Such flashy spenders as Peggy Hopkins Joyce...
...staffer on Seattle's weekly Argus (circ. 5.142), which has beaten the city's dailies on big local stories. Last week the Argus came out with a scorching editorial -first to appear in any Seattle paper- condemning the Teamsters Union in Dave Beck's home town for its "affront to the public" in refusing to answer Senate investigators' questions...
...telling the town...