Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rosen's air corps, which includes two Biafran pilots, has also given a psychological lift to Biafran troops fighting on despite the loss of their capital. Soon after Umuahia fell in April, Biafrans retaliated by recapturing the junction town of Owerri following a lengthy siege. Last week Biafran units were moving slowly southward from Owerri toward the oilfields around Port Harcourt. The Biafran strategy is not so much to regain lost territory as to prolong the standoff and inflict federal casualties until the Nigerians agree to peace talks and grant them independence. Toward such a goal, Count von Rosen...
INDEPENDENCE, MO-Residents of Independence were still reeling yesterday after hearing news that the town's leading citizen, Harry S. Truman, will be "out of town-maybe somewhere in the East" during the middle of next week...
...Fordyce, Arkansas, where you were "a sissy or a social outcast if you didn't play football" and mothers brought you up to be All-Americans. He started playing golf at the age of five and four years later. When the hot summers rolled into the little town, he'd spend 12 hours a day on the golf course...
...transit passengers will think that a local product is obviously a bargain at any price. A quart of V.S.O.P. cognac, $5 at Ireland's Shannon airport, costs $6.30 at Paris' Orly. In Belgrade, a bottle of "Manastrika" slivovitz is $2.50 at the airport and $1.50 in town. Thousands of passengers eagerly buy watches at Swiss airports, where they are not duty-free and cost about 10% more than at downtown watchmakers. German-made cameras, tape recorders and radios go for bargain prices at most duty-free airports, except in Germany...
Philadelphia is a town that takes its Squaresville role seriously (". . . and second prize is two weeks in Philadelphia"). When I Am Curious (Yellow) opened last month, Police Commissioner Frank L. Rizzo turned I Am Furious (Purple) and denounced it as "unadulterated filth." The city council majority leader, George X. Schwartz, went further: "I call on ministers, rabbis and priests to call on their congregations to boycott this film. If this picture is continued, God knows what will come next in Philadelphia...