Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, they could, until recently, in the cleaner stretch of the Charles which lies upstream of Harvard. Over last weekend, however, thousands of fish began dying in this stretch of the river, near Water-town. Most of the dead fish were carp, although some bluegills and suckers also died...
...convention last Saturday, Herbert Goodwin, a Brookline attorney and town meeting member, said that a rent grievance board, which can only investigate individual cases of rent rollbacks would be successful...
...were driving west out highway 80 towards Selma, Alabama, cruising into the sunset. Every town we passed through had been the scene of adventures four years earlier when I had been on the Courier. I remember that every time we went out to dig up information on a story I was sure we were going to be shot. Civil Rights workers were murdered all the time in '66. A lady from Detroit, Mrs. Luizzo, had been killed in 1965 near Selma for riding in a car with some Negro guys. On my first story for the Courier, I and another...
...belt broke outside a town called Monroe, Georgia. No one in town had a fan belt that could fit anything but American cars. (Even Volkswagens were virtually unknown in the South about five years ago.) So we wound up in a Phillips 66 station with a kid trying on all different sized belts until one fit. It took a long time. It also happens that this was the gathering spot of the local youths. In about ten minutes they all came pouring into the gas station with their GTO's and motorcycles. They were looking in at the engine...
...Phillipines, Taiwan, and Japan. He's parachuted out of airplanes over 700 times and has 11,000 hours of flying time. It's not too dangerous because they keep in training; they run about ten miles every day. He gave us a ride all the way across town to the highway, smiling and radiating happiness from his own Volkswagen-driving head and from his fidgeting, sun-tanned kids. We were happy to be riding in his Volkswagen. And he was happy to be living in Montgomery and zooming all over the world every week...