Word: towns
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...offer. It brought us David Letterman, for instance. But if the creators of Hoosiers are to be believed, then every community in the state has nothing better to do for five months of the year than to follow its high school basketball team from quaint agrarian town to quaint agrarian town, living and dying by their every dribble...
...time to turn off Vermont's Interstate 91 into White River Junction. White River is an old railroad town and, as some old-timers brag, an old bootlegging town, an old red-light town. Those glories are long gone, and just now it is simply an old town, at the confluence of the White and Connecticut rivers. The surrounding country is some of the handsomest in New England, but there is a scuffling, head-down quality to South Main Street, out by the Legion hall. It is just the place for a brewery, though the last of the old breweries...
...costumes. And the divas! Bing did not suffer singers gladly, and prided ) himself on his ability to control prima donnas, cajoling Montserrat Caballe or flaying Maria Callas with equally imperious vigor. In the years immediately following his retirement as general manager in 1972, Bing could still be spotted around town, often dressed in white tie and tails and always in the best company...
...immediately to meet the country's black community. He still attends largely white diplomatic dinner parties, but more often he heads to grimy offices in Soweto or a spartan church in Mamelodi, the dusty black township outside Pretoria, or a listing shanty in Crossroads, a squatter camp near Cape Town. Perkins attended Christmas services at St. Paul's Anglican Church in Soweto and has taken long walks through the mean slums of Alexandra Township, next door to Johannesburg. In most activities he has ducked the press and tried to avoid publicity...
...apartheid, Perkins and his wife Lucy, who is Chinese-born, have had few problems with whites. The country has become accustomed to visiting blacks. American blacks have already served as diplomats and foreign correspondents in South Africa for many years, and the current U.S. consul general in Cape Town, John Burroughs, is black...