Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialist-run Tourcoing, an industrial town with 80,000 inhabitants, the Socialist Youth Federation is the largest political group for younger workers, students and office employees; it has 100 members. The Communists confess to the same trouble among their faithful. Their movement, camouflaged under the name Union of Republican Youth of France, has 100,000 members, many of them uncertain of their political sentiments. "You just can't talk politics directly to youth these days," explains a young Communist leader. "Take an issue like compulsory military service. Of course we're opposed in principle to a large army...
What does the music tourist have to choose from in Europe? He may wander through the Alps to the Swiss town of Fribourg, where he will be nearly swamped under the crush of 3,000 yodelers, on hand to compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen...
...children born of such spiritually reconstituted marriages, he said, "might restore happiness and peace to this unhappy and troubled world. Hindu society can be reformed in no time if the meaning of husband worship is properly understood . . . I am confident of converting at least 100 couples in each town...
...sort of playground that even the most optimistic of them never dreamed of having. Last week Teacher Pareik led his first batch of charges to the rolling countryside outside of town to look the place over. Sure enough, there...
Outside the little northern Texas town of Krum last week, a platoon of railroad workers spaced gft. ties along a new track bed, spotted rails over tie plates and pounded home the spikes. This was no ordinary track-laying; the gandy dancers were laying the longest stretch of new line-49 miles-in the U.S. in 20 years...