Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve committees, as chairman of five. In the winter of 1955 he was the ranking U.S. Senator, and as the Senate's president pro tern he stood fourth in line of succession to the presidency. Last week, on a warm winter's day in his home town of Vienna, Ga. (pop. 2,200), Senator Walter Franklin George, 77, submitted his good record and his good name once more to the voters of his state. "I will be a candidate," he announced, "for nomination for the office of United States Senator next year...
...only to use, as you had from time to time for many years, but to be a member of the nearby Presbyterian church of Lake Forest. Your membership was accepted with the understanding that you would maintain your lifelong affiliation with the Unitarian Church of Bloomington, your home town. Descended from active Unitarians on your mother's side and equally active Presbyterians, including many ministers, on your father's side, we understand perfectly that you have found a local church home without forsaking a lifelong commitment, and that you have also united your parental religious endowments...
Early Career: Built a prosperous law practice in Liverpool, specializing in insurance; at 32 became chairman of local town council, imposed air-raid precautions long before most Britons admitted possibility of war. Three months before war began, quit law practice to join territorial army; rose rapidly to colonel on staff of British Second Army, where he served as observer at Sicily landings, helped plan Normandy, where he landed on D-day-plus-one. Brigadier at war's end, he emerged with the O.B.E. for services in invasion planning...
...Middle Eastern philanthropists, breaking windows, smashing incubators, and killing or stealing 10,000 chickens and 3,000 turkeys. Next the mob burned down a warehouse containing $60,000 worth of clothing which an American Mennonite mission had planned to distribute to the refugees as gifts. In the little town of Bethlehem, usually host to thousands of Christian pilgrims at this season, another mob stormed a police station; police and Arab legionnaires opened fire, killing six rioters. One legionnaire was stoned to death...
...Cypresses Believe in God, by José Maria Gironella, was the first part of an attempt, in the grand manner, to tell the story of tortured Spain from 1931 to the present. Using a single town as a testing ground, Gironella, a former Franco soldier, succeeded remarkably well in explaining how the civil war came about, without deserting his avowed objectivity...