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Champaign-Urbana (pop. 62,000) was not surprised by the activity; the University of Illinois was simply launching, for the fourth year in a row, its annual Festival of Contemporary Arts. Before the festival is over, the university expects to play host to 30,000 people-not a big crowd for a homecoming football game, but a big gathering for a culture fest on Illinois' eastern plain...
...Good Monument. President Stoddard arrived at Urbana just as the tidal wave of ex-G.I.s began. He thought he knew their frame of mind. "They were like a lot of men coming to see a monument," he says. "They would have been glad to see any monument at all, but we decided that we would show them a good monument...
...sent the road highballing again, and Beven began using earnings to trim the $368 million debt and buy new equipment. When Beven died in 1945, Wayne Johnston, who had started with the railroad at 22 as an accountant, stepped in, the first Illinois Central president born in Illinois (at Urbana...
This influx of newcomers has been emphasized by the Blodgett case, and aroused angry comments in the local press. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the Urbana News-Gazette, commenting on the Blodgett case, looked "askance at the 'outsiders' whom Bowen hired and allows as how it was much nicer when there were only 'comfortable' profs around who belonged to the local Kiwanis and Rotary clubs and thrilled to the deeds of the Illini gridiron heroes...
Last year's NSA conventions was held in Urbana, Illinois, at the state university...