Word: township
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Exotic Gardener. Despite all the energy he gives to Chrysler, Townsend gets home to his unpretentious ranch house in suburban Bloomfield Township almost every night for dinner and seldom brings work with him. "I've never been one who measures the quality of a job by the length of time applied thereto," he says. With his wife Ruth, whom he met at the University of Michigan, he is an avid indoor gardener, raising such exotic plants as orchids and sea grapes. Summer weekends they spend at their cabin on Byram Lake, 45 miles from home, where Townsend water-skis, boats...
...voters of Chanzeaux, a wine-growing, cattle-raising township of 1150 persons in the Loire Valley near Angers, the November 18 French Parliamentary elections were a minor event. Four years ago the citizens of Chanzeaux were dissatisfied, and one hundred and nineteen of them supported Pierre Poujade, the semi-anarchist farmer who inveighed against taxes and government. In this election, despite a fiery speech in town hall. Poujade received only twenty-seven votes...
...twins were joined at the lower end of the breastbone, mainly by cartilage and ligaments which stretched and became so pliable that by the time the boys reached their teens they could stand side by side. When they were 32, the twins married Quaker sisters from Trap Hill Township, N.C.; Chang fathered ten children and Eng twelve. But despite their close tie and obvious similarities, the twins' temperaments and illnesses differed. Eng was abstemious; Chang was a tippler. In 1872, during one of his drinking bouts, Chang had a stroke that left him partly paralyzed...
...Most public high schools are at a distinct disadvantage-they must admit all who want to attend. However, there are schools that have enriched programs for top students. New Trier Township High in Winnetka, Ill., Newton (Mass.) High and Melbourne (Fla.) High are a few examples. For some big-city students attending selective high schools, such as New York City's crack Bronx High School of Science and Lowell High in San Francisco, the curriculum is every bit as rugged and the entrance competition as tough as at Andover...
Special Branch (political) police searched for him everywhere, regularly swooped on his dowdy little home in Orlando township, searched bus stations and railway terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...