Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neared the end of a routine flight one day last week, a B-52 jet bomber from California's Castle Air Force Base went into a steepening glide over the San Joaquin Valley. Fire burst from its right wing, and near the town of Madera, 40 miles short of its home base, the big plane plummeted to earth. Five crewmen died; two, the pilot and another officer, parachuted to safety...
Despite these measures millions of Frenchmen found themselves without baguettes. In desperation some turned to their grocery stores, distastefully buying packages of biscotte, square slices of Zwieback. Others resorted to stronger action. In Paris irate customers heaved bricks through bakeshop windows. In the town of Cauterets in the Pyrenees Mayor Charles Fourtine, despondent over the insults hurled at him by angry citizens who felt that it was up to him to keep the town adequately supplied with bread, climbed a power pylon and killed himself by grasping a 100,000-volt high-tension wire...
Delegates of Nicaragua's Nationalist Liberal Party convened in the steamy town of León one day last week and, as usual, picked portly, genial President Anastasio Somoza, for 22 years Nicaragua's unchallenged boss, to be their candidate in next year's election. Flattered and proud, "Tacho" Somoza went that night to mingle with the shirtsleeved crowd in the local Somoza-founded Workers' Club. It was just after 11 o'clock on Sept. 21-Somoza has always thought that 21 was his lucky number-when one of the celebrators pulled a snub-nosed...
This is to thank whom it may concern for the H-R Mixer. I enjoyed it immensely and love all Harvard men dearly--especially the drunken football player who thickly asks you "Ain't they got no rock and roll in this here town?"; the prep school boy who arrives with more money than manners and will no doubt leave with more of the former and even less of the latter; the Big Man from Texas who tells you how to remember his name by shortending it to A. Wolf, and then with a great little gleam...
...recalled that he had traveled extensively with his father in his 1948 campaign for the Governorship of Illinois, going "from county to county" and "from town to town." He felt that his father derived real pleasure from that sort of campaigning, saying "he loved...