Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks after he arrived, Hungary hit the world's headlines, but there were no headlines in Castelpoto. Don Domenico went to a nearby town, rented four loudspeakers and a public-address system for $15 a month. He set up the speakers in the Church of the Madonna's crumbling brick campanile and turned up the power loud enough to be heard five miles away. Then he set to work with high-decibel hymns, prayers and sermons...
...Reds did their best to silence Don Domenico. They vainly invoked the law, then descended to petty harassment, e.g., denying the priest the use of the town-hall toilet, the only one near his quarters. They smeared insults on the church walls -BLACK REACTION. Don Domenico was undeterred. At Christmastime his speakers picked up every word of his services and some women prayed aloud in church all day long for the pleasure of knowing that their voices were being heard all the way into the valley...
...toughest running drama of suspense and conflict draws a small but influential audience. At Lindy's in Manhattan, bookies take bets on the outcome of each month's cliff hanger, The Ratings. Across town on Madison Avenue, admen ante up with million-dollar chips, and on the same fateful turn, TV shows stake their survival, performers their jobs and networks their reputations. Every eye in TV is firmly fixed on the numbers that do what the batting average does for baseball, the big board for Wall Street and Debrett's for the peerage...
...comes along, TV finds them indispensable. "I'm not bitter and I'm sure they're as honest as they can be," said one unemployed comic last week. "But it's like the story of the gambler who played the roulette wheel in this little town and kept losing all night, until a fellow came up and said: 'Look, bud, that wheel is fixed.' 'I know,' said the gambler, 'but it's the only wheel in town...
Bronze Age Lumbago. A resort town ever since Bronze Age lumbago sufferers took its waters 3,000 years ago, St. Moritz' modern beginnings date back just a century ago to the day in 1856 when Innkeeper Johannes Badrutt bought the little Kulm Hotel. Johannes was modestly prospering on summer trade when one autumn he wagered four departing British guests that they could stroll around St. Moritz in midwinter without overcoats. That winter the four struggled upland through the snow, arrived in St. Moritz to find the sun so warm that Johannes was waiting in his shirtsleeves...