Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potato, you spineless spinach, you mustachioed pistachio, who do you think you are? What gives you the right, let me see your papers, who gave you permission, where is your petition, you have no commission, I bet I know your mission. It's an ill wind brings you into town, and now with your new gown I guess it's legal...
...Town of Wellesley is quiet and nice. But in the past week it has shown a new face, a tense, grim face-the result of a play presented memorial Day in the public high school: But the furor in Wellesley extends far beyond anger over the lines of the play and touches a basic fear felt by the community as a whole since the beginning of the year...
...rape scene and several "four-letter words," set off a chain of shocked and protective anger from parents which culminated in two court subpoenae for teachers involved with the presentation, the arrest of one high school senior, and a near-hysterical school board meeting with over 1000 tense town citizens attending...
...very active METCO program, bussing ghetto blacks to the all-white wealthy suburban school, is equally controversial. One of the three black residents of the town, Mrs. Betty Powell, spoke at the school committee meeting, saying that the man sitting directly behind had advised, "If you don't like it, why don't you go back to Africa...
...four-hour journey took eight hours. In one small town along the tracks, Colonia, family held up a bedsheet with the words "We'll miss you Bobby" scratched upon it. In Menuchen, an elderly Negre fell on his knees touching the ground with his forehead and stretched out his arms, hat in hand, toward the train. Everywhere, men and women pressed their fists to their mouths, their faces hard with grief...