Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students died of typhoid fever. In her class, I heard the teacher comforting her pupils with the words you quoted from Laura Spelman Rockefeller, "Children are my precious jewels -loaned me for a season to be handed back when the call comes." Even here in this small town the good works of the Rockefeller bounty is felt. Unaware, perhaps, farmers in this area are beginning to use hybrid corn seed made possible by research and development grants from the Rockefeller Foundation. We are grateful to you for such an excellent portrayal of a gracious and dedicated gentleman...
...memorable fact of 1956 was not that the Republican Party did badly or that the Democratic Party did well. It was that in state after state, district after district, town after town, voters ignored party affiliations to elect candidates of individual local merit (or to defeat candidates of individual demerit...
...indefinitely; bars and dance halls were empty for much of the week. At noon one day, all work and traffic throughout West Germany was halted for three silent minutes, and for three days flags were lowered to half-staff. There were mass demonstrations in every major city and university town, topped by an outburst of 100,000 in West Berlin...
...native of Budapest, Laszlo was at-tending the University of Sopron, in a town on the Austrian border, when the revolt broke out, Oct. 20. He said his companinons had sent him to America to seek aid for the rebels...
Literary Rock Pile. Upon joining the colony each neophyte gets a copy of From Here to Eternity and a good look at Jones's sumptuous house on the western edge of town at the end of Beech Street. The house is complete with hi-fi set, high-powered hunting rifles, 3,500 books, pushbutton kitchen and Hollywood-style bathroom (with a French-style bidet...