Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hanover--a locality which, incidentally, couldn't get the game on television either--CBS had been preparing for the broadcast as if the whole world would be listening. More than 20 technicians invaded the village weeks in advance and proceeded to wire up everything in sight. Since the town has no cable connection with Concord, site of the nearest CBS station, two steel towers were built to transmit the voice and picture across the New England countryside on a special microwave circuit. On the day of the game, there were so many CBS men in the press box that reporters...
When his party took a licking in the Lower Saxony state elections last spring, Kaisen concluded that it had harped too much on national issues and foreign policy, decided to fight Bremen's election on strictly local issues, even hustled tubby Socialist Chief Erich Ollenhauer out of town when he came to support the campaign...
...prisoners pent behind the grim stone walls of the old prison in the little Normandy town of Pont-l'Evéque were an unimaginative crew-mostly drunks, chicken thieves, wife-beaters and petty racketeers-and their prison life was as dreary as their crimes. Then, on a certain hot afternoon in July, a new warden took over. Pert as a pouter pigeon, rotund little Fernand Billa was a jailer less interested in penology than in poetry and strong pastis (a variant of absinthe). With plenty of verses and good drink to hand, Billa could find even a prison...
...landed in Paris last week while it was overrun by visitors to the International Auto Show plaintively wrote her daughter in the U.S.: "We spend all our time at the American Express office. Here we can sit down and talk quietly. And it's the only place in town with a clean rest room...
...Last year Coke's net earnings dropped 8% while other companies' jumped (Pepsi-Cola's by 13%). In January of this year, Coke and D'Arcy tried a new sales approach, kicked off a big ad campaign featuring models in plush surroundings instead of home-town folks in corner drugstores. Trade magazines promptly kidded Coke for being years behind Pepsi-Cola. When Coke began introducing bigger bottles, Pepsi remarked: "It's fun to be followed-to be recognized as the leader...