Word: towns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while those on the other could keep going until midnight. In 1942, the occupying Nazis proclaimed the whole district to be Dutch, but the very next day they sheepishly withdrew their decree: the two electric systems, the two water systems, the two gas suppliers, not to mention the two town halls and two sets of laws, were just too much to cope with...
...American-Grace Airways, which transports most of the tourists who visit Cuzco, has started a search to find the missing statue. Panagra reasons that if the foundry sent Powhatan to Peru, it may have sent Atahuallpa to some U.S. town square. He should be easy to spot. He is robust, with short-cropped hair, grave manner, handsome face, fierce eyes. He wears an elaborate band around his forehead, and a collar of large emeralds...
...inevitable compromise has not prevented him from attempting some ambitious shows. Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Ninotchka, Waterloo Bridge are all on the books. He is angling for the rights to Our Town, has already taped an impressive remake of The Moon and Sixpence, starring Sir Laurence Olivier. In May he will do Billy Budd, in August The Ransom of Red Chief; just before Christmas he plans to produce Arrowsmith...
Life with Father. While tops in a science that is thick with foreign accents, Jim Van Allen is about as American as a man can be. Born in 1914 at Mount Pleasant, a county-seat town in southeastern Iowa, he was the second son of a successful lawyer. Alfred Van Allen, whose Dutch ancestors came to the U.S. soon after the Revolution. His mother was raised on an Iowa farm...
...song. Within minutes she shoots the hat off one heckler, wraps a whipstalk around the skull of another. Then her saloonkeeper boy friend (Scott Brady) proceeds to give the sheriff an incurable case of lead poisoning. It is obviously high time for law and order to come to the town of Bottleneck. And it does, with no-gun Deputy Tom Destry (Andy Griffith) fresh out of law school and full of wide open spaces in his speech...