Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People were turning more and more of their interest toward the things they knew best. A newsstand dealer in Dallas summed it up: "People are interested in little things again. For instance more and more of them are coming in here asking for home-town newspapers. Three years ago, they didn't give a damn. They just grabbed the nearest newspaper and looked at the headlines quick-to see were we in a war again, or maybe had the Commies walked off with the Capitol dome. Now it's important to them to know who's marrying...
...dictator-in-trouble stayed in his town residence; he was seen there walking in the garden. Generals, admirals and politicos talked in private about a military junta. Then the papers began to mention Perón again: top officers and Cabinet ministers began driving...
...start a hunger strike. Rubbing their prayer beads, softly chanting their sutras. they waited. As night fell, the celibates retired to sleep-all but Sentry Kim Chi Yo, who took up his post at the temple's weathered wooden gates. There was a delegation of married monks in town to protest the government's decree, and rumor had it that the married monks might be looking for trouble...
...Toast of the Town...
...summer has become a hot season for TV. Only two sponsors dropped CBS shows for the summer, and NBC's summer evening time is 92% sold. NBC has only twelve summer replacement shows, as compared to 20 last year. Many of the big shows, e.g., Toast of the Town, What's My Line?, will continue through the summer...