Word: townsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road Ahead. In Foleyet, Ont., after proud townsmen had happily celebrated the opening of the first road to lead out of their community, and one civic orator had pompously puffed: "It will be no time at all until we feel the real impact of this development," thieves broke into the Hudson's Bay Co. store, lifted its safe and $4,500, escaped in a stolen truck on the new road...
...million), blue-eyed Achille Lauro first burst into Italian politics in 1952 when he was elected mayor of Naples. Since then he has spent an estimated $4,000,000 of his own money and run up the biggest civic debt in Italian history ($160 million), giving his fellow townsmen spaghetti, circuses, repaved streets, and a first-class soccer team. (Mayor Lauro cheerfully forked over $200,000 to sign up one Swedish soccer star for Naples.) The Neapolitan crowds love him; opposition politicians consider him a gold-plated clown, or, in the words of one, stricken by "dynamic senility...
...managed, however, to make a good impression on some of his colleagues and fellow-townsmen by his generosity and good temper, and his mother exclaimed, after the execution, "Yes, they hanged my saintly Billy! He was a bit of a scamp right enough, but a good son to me; the best of the brood, except Sarah, and no murderer...
Last week New President Richard H. Sullivan joined 500 facultymen, alumni and townsmen at a farewell banquet to Jay special tribute to Griff. But the man to whom they were saying goodbye was not one they would soon forget. When Sullivan solemnly declared, "I shall always be grateful to him," he was speaking lot only for himself but for Reed...
...Iowa's farmers and small townsmen took out their troubles on their Republican Governor Leo Hoegh (TIME, Oct. 22 ), turned the statehouse over to the first Democrat since 1936, Herschel Loveless. Said Hoegh: "This election has been good for Eisenhower, but it has been tough on some of us Ike originals...