Word: towns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder whether you may have had tongue in cheek when you explained Cwthmas as "an abbreviation of 'Commonwealthmas'; the 'w' is pronounced like that in the town of Ebbw Vale." I'm lost...
...Near the town of Lugazi, in the Buganda section of Uganda, an African husband got home from a beer party one night recently to find his wife of 22 years entertaining three men. A fight broke out, and the husband was killed. As the guilty foursome wondered how to dispose of the corpse, a simple solution occurred to them...
...quiet evening in the sleepy little town of Bien Hoa 20 miles north of Saigon, base camp for the South Vietnamese crack 7th Infantry Division and its eight-man U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group. The presence of the Americans symbolized one of the main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time-to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam. Since the beginning of 1959,Communist infiltrators have stepped up their campaign of terrorism, assassinating an average...
...sheer brainpower-a blackboard, chalk and talent snatched from all across the U.S. They attract many corporation scientists who want to do advance research at local universities-and then they jealously guard these recruits. Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna." At the same time, Route 128 companies draw as part-time consultants the fulltime professors and graduate students who want to put their ideas into action in industry (and to reap its rewards...
...Cold Fish. Maybe one of Dick Nixon's troubles is that he is too perfect. His God-fearing parents of modest means, the excellence of his record in school, his beginnings as a lawyer in Whittier (known as "Ye Friendly Town"), and his liking for pineapple milk shakes are all almost too good to be true. He has an amazing degree of self-control and neatness-the secretary of his old Whittier law firm recalls that when he came to work, the first thing he did was to take several hundred books off the shelves to dust them...