Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith is slim, white-haired, countrified in speech, friendly in manner. He publishes the tiny (circ. 2,000) weekly Argus in the midstate town (pop. 7,400) of Robinson. He golfs and fishes, is a Rotarian and a former statewide vice president of the Elks. Fascinated newsmen describe him as the healer who wound up as Illinois Republican chairman in 1960 because, in a party ripped and bloodied with faction, "he was the only man nobody...
...Bayreuth in Danger?" The question, posed by Munich's Abendzeitung, may have seemed strange as the little Bavarian town of Bayreuth prepared last week for its annual Wagner festival. Hotels were doubling their rates; black marketeers were getting an all-time high of $500 for tickets; and economically at least, the institution created by Richard Wagner in 1876 to perpetuate his works and ideals was thriving as never before...
Paintings cover the walls and ceilings, and still Pleuthner doodles on. The dial of his bathroom scales shows a baby's face. He answers legal documents with pastel scrawls on colored construction paper. Recently, and with a little embarrassment, his lawyer turned the town's official notices over to the courts complete with an emblazoned DON'T TREAD ON ME and coiled snake -Pleuthner's art work and heartfelt response. Cocking his head, he says: "The people in Scarsdale may be wealthy, but esthetically, they're paupers...
...ante trippers away, he has refused to renew the lease on his docks for one of the excursion steamers out of Hyannis and demanded that the other carry fewer passengers at higher rates. To upgrade the mainstreet shopping area, he has bought up 80% of the commercial acreage in town, elbowed out marginal enterprises and replaced them with tony shops selling needlepoint and native-woven material...
...evidence favorable to the plaintiff, disregard all evidence to the contrary, and decide that even under those circumstances, no reasonable man could find for the plaintiff. Even if the dispute is so onesided that it amounts to "the word of a busload of bishops against the word of the town drunk," says Harvard Law Professor Richard Field, the question must go to a jury...