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Word: townes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else in Deerfield (pop. 10,000), a handsome, new North Shore suburb, June Courington was outraged by a homebuilder's plan to sell roughly one-fifth of an adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board meeting in the grade school gym. There an angry 1½-hour session proved that the problem of integrated housing can be as grim in northern suburbia as anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBURBIA: High Cost of Democracy | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Nottingham undergraduate who shook 9,001 hands in the town square, breaking Theodore Roosevelt's record of 8,513 established at a White House reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Road | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Monat family took the 11:32 p.m. Warsaw-Vienna express, sped through southern Poland and Czechoslovakia during the night, entered Austria at the tiny border town of Bernhardsthal. Since the Monats were traveling on diplomatic passports, Austrian customs of cials merely passed them by. Arriving at Vienna's East Station at 2:50 the next afternoon, the Monats had ten hours to kill before their train departed for Yugoslavia. Some time in that ten hours, they vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Valuable Catch | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Most shows touring service bases in the past have been musical revues, Henning pointed out, and in this respect the present production will set a precedent. He explained that he selected Our Town because it seemed to be a play with universal appeal and because "it is the type of play Harvard actors can do best...

Author: By Carl I. Gable jr., | Title: Actors Will Tour South Pacific If Army Accepts Henning's Plan | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

...This town is full of people (especially girls) who insist on "atmosphere" for their post-date eats. And there's a new little Italian place up Mass. Ave. near the 'Cliffe--which has no atmosphere at all. Sure, it has rough-hewn benches, an indoor trellis with wax grapes, and murals of Italy. But atmosphere it has not. It is just a big, bright joint, with neon...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Portable Pizza Pie | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

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