Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reuther, who likes woodworking, remodeled the house himself. He helps Linda with her homework after dinner or on weekends. Last weekend he stayed in town for the Ford negotiations and did not get home at all. When Linda heard of the G.M. negotiations this weekend, she cried: "Daddy, you got to come home-I have a test on Monday...
...became an organizer of extreme right political parties in the British zone, won a seat in the Göttingen town council, and headed a publishing house whose favorite authors were old Nazis justifying their pasts. In 1949 the British banned him from politics. But with the end of military government, he was back with a new party that he called the National Right, and got elected to the Lower Saxony parliament. Two weeks later he abandoned his own party, jumped over to the more respected Free Democrats, the right wing of Chancellor Adenauer's four-party federal coalition...
...Tory victory was largely a personal triumph for Premier Leslie Frost, 59. A genial small-town lawyer from Lindsay, Ont. (pop. 9,603). Frost took over the premiership in 1949 and steadily built up the Tory vote by running a smooth, prosperous administration. One of his first moves was to settle a long taxation feud between the Ontario and federal governments. Frost tried no spectacular political experiments, but he kept taxes low, increased welfare grants, ran his cabinet so efficiently that hardly a hint of discord ever was heard outside the caucus room...
...week six U.S. Quakers, led by Clarence E. Pickett. onetime secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, are on a good-will visit to Russia. The first group of U.S. Quakers to visit Russia in 25 years, they will stay through June, hope to establish themselves in a small town to observe Russian life and explain the U.S. to the Russians...
...roadside turned into a seething mass, the maimed trying to escape, the unhurt pressing forward to see more. It was five minutes before fire crews could get to Levegh's smoldering wreck, a good half hour before private cars, trucks and every ambulance in town started to work carting off casualties. Toll at week's end: 78 dead, 105 seriously injured...