Word: towns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what's up front that viscerally counts. There are sizzling renditions of the Charleston, the black bottom and the cakewalk; the band lashes into Tiger Rag and Muskrat Ramble, and when the whole company belts out A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, the mercury leaves the thermometer...
...Orleans is a conservative town, its bankers an inbred bunch who do not cotton to outsiders. And, as Canizaro remarks, "for many years New Orleans was not pro-Italian." He put a $5,000 deposit on a downtown plot, then tried to borrow more to buy it. "There was enough income coming in from the property to service the debt if only somebody would lend me the money." The Establishment would not. Finally, he found a small bank to make the loan, and he started prospering. Canizaro...
Blaming Harvard for most of the city's town-gown troubles, Wylie says "We'll deny everything Harvard wants from us until it treats us as equals...
...moreover, has combined to take any edge off an election that was hackneyed the day it began. After the preliminary was over, The News was The Pope and it stayed that way until the pontiff left the country. A couple of weeks later, the Kennedys et. al. came to town to dedicate the John F. Kennedy Library. Kevin White was there--in the back row of the platform with some Boston Pops oboe blasting in his ear. And Joe Timilty was there too--with a camera, looking to attract attention to himself while snapping shots of the really big guys...
...city council "is going to boot the CBA out of town and then go after Harvard," she adds. "Apparently this makes them very popular...