Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wetherbine" & "Clementine." Happy's technique varied only slightly as he stumped from town to fish fry to camp meeting. Generally, he was preceded by a sound truck, blaring songs and the repeated injunction: "Be like your pappy and vote for Happy." By the time 'the audience's feet were tapping out the rhythms, the candidate himself rolled up in a big black car, grinning and waving, pumping outthrust hands. After his speech -always approximately the same ("It's won for me-why should I change?")-Happy rang down the curtain with a song, usually There...
From Cape Town to Casablanca, across the length of Africa, the answer to one question takes many forms-bloodshed, brutality, bigotry, benevolence. The question: Can 5,000,000 Europeans learn to live in harmony with 200 million Africans, many of whom are learning that poverty and servitude need not be their lot? Last week, under quite different circumstances, two men of Africa tried to bring in moderate answers...
...thousands it was their first experience in democratic procedure. In the new immigrant village of Ta'oz in the Judean hills, a fragile-boned Yemenite, who a year ago had been forced to step off the pavement of his native town if an Arab went by, cast the first vote of his life. Down in the Negev, the Bedouins in their black cloaks tethered donkeys and camels outside the polling stations, stood patienlly alongside their Jewish neighbors, waiting their turn. Brooklyn's Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, of the Congregation Yetv Lev, in an effort to persuade Orthodox Jews...
...formula is a sound one, but Author Hardin has taken out some extra insurance. He makes good use of a theme currently popular with "serious" novelists, i.e., Aging Man Returns to Home Town in Search of His Youth. On top of that, he manages to combine outstandingly successful plots from both sides of the Atlantic, i.e., the British whodunit's Murder Stalks a Village and the American thriller's Sleuth Outwits Corrupt Local Politicians...
Attention-Getter. In Taunton, England, the town council told Druggist W. H. Adcock that he must remove the elaborate display he had erected on the second floor as a perfume advertisement because it was so beautiful that it distracted motorists and constituted a driving hazard...