Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure the town fathers would like an airport as described-maybe a cooperative one could be designed between Havana (pronounced locally HAY vanner), the airlines and the city of Tallahassee, which is experiencing engineering difficulties in enlarging its present airport...
...gently needled both a local G.O.P. official and himself. While he was preparing the itinerary for his South American trip in 1958, Nixon told how the official, Lee Potter, had noticed one omission. "Why don't you take in Caracas?" Potter had suggested. "It's a fun town." Said Nixon: "It sure was. I got stoned there...
...Longer Kings. In fact, Mineral King is not quite that. The skeleton of the abandoned mining town (onetime pop. 500) is still in plain view and at least 60 summer homes now dot the proposed ski valley, which can be reached by an existing dirt road. Moreover, Mineral King is the jumping-off point for summertime packhorse trips into the wild, mountainous wonder. Disney officials say that the Kaweah River is already polluted downstream from the stable of the horse-renting concession-and promised to do something about...
...Chicago, an anti-ABM group is suing the Army and the Defense Department to block construction of a site at nearby Libertyville. The town was Adlai Stevenson's home, and at a recent Chicago rally, his son, Adlai III, said that the choice of the site was a "cruel irony," since much of the thinking for the nuclear test-ban treaty was done in his father's house...
...McGimsey, but everybody calls him Levi. He is 73. His grandfather came West to Boonville in 1852. He told us that the language is "Boontling," which is a corruption of Boonville Lingo. In English sprinkled with Boontling, Levi described what Boonville was like in those days: a rough frontier town first settled in the 1850s by subsistence farmers and sheep and cattle ranchers, most of them of Scotch-Irish descent...