Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of months ago, rakish Director John Huston took Stars Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster and Audie Murphy to the Mexican iron-mining town of Durango (pop. 59,500) to film The Unforgiven and save $600,000 (in Mexico, an Indian with horse costs $2 a day against $40 in Hollywood). Now Huston stands to spend an extra $1,000,000-the price of maintaining a vast army of cows and cowboys for a month more than expected...
Only the top names draw enough customers for a hotel to show an entertainment profit, but losses are simply chalked up to advertising costs. And most of the town's once thriving nightclubs have been reduced to strip joints...
Huston & Co. have certainly changed Durango. Its economy is giddily inflated, from the rising business (up 20%) of merchants to the soaring price of good imported whisky and bad local women. The town's new taste of high life is even giddier. Producer Jim Hill adorned the place with his glittering wife, Rita Hayworth. Rugged Charles Bickford had his food flown in from a Hollywood gourmet shop, including 100 steaks for which there were no adequate freezing facilities...
...that Anatolia was not inhabited by civilized people until about 3,000 B.C., when the cultures of Mesopotamia moved slowly north. But the walled village seems to be as old as anything in Mesopotamia, and heaped-up debris under it hints that the place was occupied by civilized town-dwellers 500 years before the walls were built. So man's first, faltering civilization may have spread from Anatolia to Mesopotamia and later Greece...
...cigar beneath his mustache, wrapped a grimy printer's apron about his waist and flipped the switch on the old flatbed press. As the first ink-wet copies of the Banner began to roll, it seemed much like the press run of any of thousands of other small-town U.S. papers. It wasn't. If last week's edition ran true to form, Editor Joiner's own column in the Banner would be excerpted or reprinted in full in much larger Southwestern newspapers. The reason: Ernest Joiner, as one of the most outspokenly devil-take...