Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forbidden to go on with his irrigating, Dolci moved on to another town. Partinico, and began once more to plague those in authority. Without bothering to get official permission, he set up a first-aid station in one of the town's back alleys. A spate of pamphlets poured from his angry pen asking, among other questions, "How many people in Partinico will hang themselves this year?" and "How many will go mad?" Dressed in a thick, white pullover sweater, he was often to be seen waiting in the local mayor's office to demand attention on some...
...church meeting in home town Portland, Ore., Dr. Paul S. Wright, 60, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., confided to assembled elders that he will marry Christian Education Worker Mary McDowell, 27, in June. A December and May romance? Said Widower Wright: "You can't tell the split second you fall in love . . . We decided through earnest prayer to get married...
Unsavory Distinction. The one Colombian paper that got the story into print, Medellin's responsible El Colombiano, was closed down by the device of moving the government's censorship office to an out-of-town military post, where editors were ordered to bring all copy. Since the same move shut two other Medellin papers, Rojas Pinilla, who has blotted out all of Bogotá's oldest and best dailies, briefly achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Reginald Rose's Tragedy in a Temporary Town...
...painting-crammed Park Avenue apartment, or his painting-crammed house in Paris, or in the world's best restaurants and sleekest salons, he is always onstage and always in action-shrugging, mugging, clowning, hand-kissing, charming, talking, talking, talking. And in concert halls and auditoriums, gymnasiums, stadiums and town halls from Sydney to Saskatchewan he is making music with hands and heart, and always trying to do it better...