Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other communities had to go it alone. Some, such as Crookston (pop. 9,200), were prepared; experience had been a cruel teacher. In 1897, 1916 and again in 1950, the town had been devastated by floods. The Army engineers studied Crookston in 1943 and somehow concluded that it had no serious flooding problems, but the town disagreed and several years later began building a small dike system funded by local assessments and general taxes. By 1965, Crookston had 2.8 miles of new dikes, which cost nearly $63,000. The investment paid off immediately. The flood four years ago -the worst...
Each section of the community was organized. Neighborhood headquarters were established with radios to communicate with dike patrols, troubleshooting teams and civil defense units manned by local citizens. Each neighborhood paid for its own equipment-everything from walkie-talkies to coffee urns. The preparations were as complete as the town's foresight and finances allowed...
...small, cheerful town of Briare lies some hundred miles south of Paris on the Loire River. Briare boasts the largest and most modern pheasant farm in all France and a sprinkling of diverse industry: a tile factory, a plant making laboratory instruments, another producing furniture. Briare's real distinction, however, is invisible. In the past six national elections, the men and women of Briare have voted within a few percentage points of the entire French nation. To attempt to discover how Briare will vote in the April 27 referendum, TIME Correspondent John Blashill spent several days in the town...
...Place de la République and the Rue de la Liberté, the talk turns easily to the mayor himself. The men around the bar call Dabard "our own little De Gaulle" and yarn about his imperious tactics. The new water works? Ah, well, Dabard knew that the town council disapproved, so he appointed an independent commission to "study" the plan. To no one's surprise, the commission thought the project was splendid, and Dabard signed a construction contract. The council protested, but the mayor was ready. "If you question my judgment," he told the councilmen, "it means...
...blank. "The referendum," he says, "tries to put too many things together. It's too complicated for yes or no." Briare's local Communists-Dabard puts their total vote at 421 or 422-are fond of their autocratic mayor. "He's done a lot for the town, for the workers," says Lucien Delsartre, a Communist labor leader employed by the Otis elevator factory at nearby Gien. But Delsartre and his fellow Communists will vote against De Gaulle's proposals. "I have nothing against him," Delsartre says. "It's his policies we despise. They...