Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fulltime writing staff has rarely numbered more than two. Its most distinguished alumnus, Harper's Editor Willie Morris, recalled last week: "Every Friday afternoon we'd have a full-fledged story conference at Scholz's beer hall. Then one of us would go out of town, and the other would stay behind and put out the paper. The guy who remained had to do everything: editing, copy-reading, makeup. He would even set up a desk next to the Linotype operator and read over his shoulder...
...Jerusalem community in Hale County is a fairly typical black town. New Jerusalem is not on any of the road maps, and it is a distinct mistake to ask local gas station owners how to get there ("Why you wonna go see them niggers boy?"). Most white visitors who find themselves in New Jerusalem are there by accident, having strayed off Country Road 21 on the way to Greensboro from Akron. The only white faces that appear regularly in the town are those of county sheriffs, looking for moonshine liquor...
...dismissing the Town of Milton's suit to block the extension of MBTA rapid transit lines from Ashmont to Mattapan, Judge Frank W. Tomasello apparently ended a four-year delay in construction of the library...
...latest solution proposed extension of the present Harvard-Ashmont rapid transit line to Mattapan and construction of the yards there. But the Town of Milton, through which the new line would travel, objected and filed the suit that was overturned yesterday...
...forces are following the well-established lead of California. The California Democratic Council (CDC), formed in the wake of the McCarthy-like Stevenson movement, rose over the past sixteen years to become the major grassroots political organization in a state with a long tradition of weak party organizations. Organized town by town into councils, the CDC has had an important influence on the party candidates and platform. In western states like Arizone, Washington, and Nebraska who have had similar traditions of relatively weak party machines, the CDC is being avidly copied...