Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last unabashed red-light districts in the nation. After-hours gin mills and gambling joints thrive in defiance of Texas laws, under the tacit protection of kickback-hungry city officials. From time to time, ambitious reformers have made feeble efforts to clean up Galveston, but the town has always quickly returned to its wicked ways, partly because the tourists like it that way-and also, apparently, because Galvestonians...
...wanted the ministers to sit at a round table so that the Germans could the more easily join them on an equal basis, the Westerners insisted cagily on a square table: four sides, four powers. Instead of beginning their proceedings on time, the four ministers found themselves at the town house of Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, making sketch after sketch of possible seating arrangements on little scraps of yellow paper...
...seems to regard the obstinate pieds noirs (black feet-Europeans born in Algeria) as almost as great an obstacle to an Algerian solution as the rebels themselves. Last week, after a series of clashes between his soldiers and the local Ultras, the commanding officer in Constantine plastered the town with posters: YOU WILL CALL THE MOSLEMS
...unmatched beads, but some of them have the wicked glint of genuine satire. Party Song stingingly peppers the social climbers of suburbia. Rejection ("that childhood rejection") does the same for the hobohemian set. New York is a cathartic for all the romantic nonsense set to music about the Big Town...
...pinching grief has resulted since. The Aldine district (pop. 45,000) has had three school superintendents in two years, turned over 9% of its students to Houston to save money. Last summer the board cut the proposed school tax from $1.58 per $100 property assessment to $1.35. Result: the town's twelve schools (9,000 students) temporarily lost accreditation: after their paychecks stopped last month. Aldine's teachers quit their jobs and the schools shut down entirely...