Word: townships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signs of belated unity. Humphrey wound up his campaign odyssey of more than 98,000 miles amid laughter, with a triumphant Los Angeles parade and a four-hour telethon with Edmund Muskie. Humphrey flew home to Waverly, Minn., during the early hours of Election Day to vote in Marysville Township, his home precinct, which gave him 385 votes to Nixon's 128 and 15 for Wallace...
...town, in turn, has shown its fist. Starting back in 1967, the township has served Owner Walter K. Pleuthner, 83, with legal papers ordering him to demolish the house. Local officials believe a succession of small fires have damaged the structure so much that it is "dangerous and unsafe." Pleuthner contends that the fires only "mellowed" his home's great oak beams, answers each suit with delaying tactics or countersuit. When officials threatened to bulldoze the structure last month, Pleuthner's lawyer won a temporary restraining order. Said he: "Scarsdale doesn't like it because it doesn...
Without prelude, the rapid approach of a loud, metallic whine overhead transformed normal activity in the township of Umuahia, which now serves as the rebels' headquarters, into frightened cries and panicked running about. A few seconds later, a single low-flying jet plane cut a straight line across the town, releasing as it went six pairs of rockets. Two plowed caverns into the grass huts outside the Red Cross headquarters at Saint Stephen's School, where schoolgirl volunteers sat outside preparing garri for the evening meal...
...entered the Indian College. This was John Wampus, a Nipmuc Sagamore, who quit before the year was out and spent the next few years in and out of jail for debt and drunkenness. He later settled down as a roving realtor in Massachusetts, and managed to sell the entire township of Sutton--which...
Durban was divided into sections for whites, Indians, coloreds, and Bantus (Negroes), and Dr. Salber and her husband, also a doctor, were working in the Bantu township. Though facilities were good and the work "terribly exciting," apartheid raised moral problems. Just outside the township was a settlement of 6000 Bantu men on contract labor, brought in from all around the country. Mothers complained to Dr. Salber that their daughters were being threatened, and malnutrition was a problem among the huge colony of men. Yet to complain to the government from a medical and humanitarian point of view inevitably...