Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Small Town in Germany, Le Carre...
...where names like Jones and Brown have replaced the Giovannis and O'Shaughnessys. The banker who made Skull and Bones is no model for undergraduates, writes Sociologist Nathan Glazer in FORTUNE. "Indeed, often the snobberies run the other way-the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, generally from a small town or an older and duller suburb, is likely to envy the big-city and culturally sophisticated Jewish students...
Tubman and Liberia have come a long way since his first inauguration. Monrovia, now a city of 100,000, at that time was a town of scarcely 15,000 people sporting only four blocks of paved streets, no sewage system, no streetlighting, no radio nor telephones. Liberia's annual budget came to $750,000, and government departments were quartered in shabby, corrugated-metal reproductions of Southern U.S. ante-bellum mansions. An Americo-Liberian elite, descendants of the American slaves who declared Liberia independent in 1847,* was in power, ruling with little regard for the tribal people of the bush...
...Name Anyway. Today, Monrovia is still a provincial town, but it has nonetheless changed considerably. A splendid, glittering presidential palace, looking like a cross between a Hilton hotel and New York's Museum of Modern Art, overlooks the town-and some of its slums. The John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, built with U.S. aid and now nearing completion, will be one of the most modern in all of West Africa. Some 2,000 miles of road, paved or not, are open, three railway spurs lead to rich inland iron-ore mines, and low shipping-registration fees (which netted...
...studio was next door to a garage in a New Mexico town called Clovis. For instruments, there was a $50 mail-order guitar and a battered bass with one string missing. The performers were two students from nearby West Texas State College, backed by the sister of one and her girl friend. Yet Party Doll and I'm Stickin' with You, the songs recorded that day by Buddy Knox, Jimmy Bowen and the "Rhythm Orchids," both caught on across the nation and became two of the top rockabilly hits...