Word: township
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicodemus, Kans.-a cluster of trailer homes and collapsing limestone houses, seemingly marooned in the vast rolling prairie-a six-member team of architects and students sits in the township hall, patiently listening to reminiscences by some of the village's 50 remaining residents. The team is trying to fill in a "municipal fingerprint" of Nicodemus during the decades after 1877, when it was founded by a colony of emancipated blacks...
...youngster began tagging along at any GOP functions he could get into. In 1976, he supervised the township youth campaign for a U.S. Congressional candidate. Elliott's man lost but took Bremen by a wider margin than he received in his home township. "The first big break," the senior recalls with mock seriousness...
...they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed, they say, the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparked by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
Driving on back roads, the couple meandered through northern Illinois as far as Chicago, east into Indiana, south to Paducah, Ky., and then into the St. Louis area. Back in Carman township, Ill., distraught family members, unaware that the Graftons were motoring aimlessly, reported them missing...
Thanks to Gary, a communications major from Penn State, Rob, 23, now lies in his bedroom in Hopewell Township, Pa., at the heart of one of the most sophisticated computer control and communications centers in the U.S. It is a remarkable patchwork of off-the-shelf electronics parts, including a desktop computer, a remote-control video recorder, a scattering of video games and pinball machines, a conference-type telephone system and a backyard antenna big enough to broadcast network-quality television signals. All of it was pieced together during the past five years by Gary and Ted Ruscitti...