Word: urbana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still the plague spreads, even though many Middle Western cities, where elms are the most common and sometimes the only shade trees, have demonstrated that the two-part program works well. Chicago, which destroyed diseased trees and sprayed too, lost only 0.7% of its elms last year; Champaign-Urbana and Bloomington, where no systematic effort was made, lost 95% of their elms...
RICHARD F. TOMASSON Department of Sociology University of Illinois Urbana...
Last week, in celebration of its centennial, the museum had on view the largest exhibition of Hals paintings ever held. Eleven of the canvases belonged to Haarlem; the rest came from as far away as the State Museum of Odessa and the University of Illinois in Urbana. Queen Elizabeth of England and Mrs. Efrem Zimbalist of Philadelphia each sent a painting; the Earl of Radnor and the King of Sweden sent two apiece...
Stephen LeRoy Honore, 23, a bright, energetic Urbana, Ohio, Negro who sings calypso and has long been torn between his scientific talents and a burgeoning humanitarian impulse. Son of a semiskilled truck-plant laborer. Honore was the first Negro to be elected student-body president at Capital University, a Lutheran school in a suburb of Columbus, where he got his B.S. in physics and math. A 1959 trip to Castro's Cuba in a National Students Association delegation was an eye-opener: "I saw these people in the rural areas living under the most adverse conditions while the rich...
DAVID J. NORTON Urbana...