Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barry Dym, a strong 6 ft., 1 in. guard (he played end at Valley Stream North High School), is averaging 14 1/2 points per game playing in the backcourt. Dym scores consistently on long, left-handed jump shots and slashing drives...
...McCarthy Jr., former branch manager of Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth, took $500,000 out of the treasuries of the Teamster organizations in Detroit and deposited the money in a non-interest-bearing account in an Orlando, Fla. bank. The bank in turn lent money to Sun Valley, Inc.-a land development company of which Henry Lower is president. The company then bought up Florida lots at about $18 apiece, and with Hoffa's help began promoting the land as a haven for retired and aging Teamsters-selling the lots at prices ranging from...
...tentatively accepted the U.S. offer, President Victor Paz Estenssoro still planned to send a mission to Moscow. Like many Latin American leaders, he must thread a delicate political path between right and left inside his country. There is already what amounts to open guerrilla warfare in the lush Cochabamba Valley only 140 miles from La Paz. A month ago a Communist-led band descended upon anti-Communists in the town of Cliza and touched off a four-day battle that left 100 dead. On the second day U.S. Ambassador (and former Math Professor) Carl Strom was heckled and stoned during...
Legson Kayira is a Tumbuka tribesman from Nyasaland who is in love-with Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Wash. The junior college, which has 650 students, mainly local, first learned of Kayira's devotion last February when he sent a scholarship application from Kampala, Uganda. The school heard from him again this fall, when he sent a letter that began: "In October of the year of our Lord 1958, I began a journey-a long and difficult journey-a journey to glory or death." The letter went on to paint a picture of a youngster so hungry...
...eventually to Mwanza on Lake Victoria in July 1959. There he worked for six months to raise money for a boat trip to Kampala. He spent $1.05 for a physics book (which he memorized), and haunted the U.S. Information Service library. One day he stumbled on Skagit Valley in a directory of U.S. colleges. "I wrote a letter and got one back saying I had a scholarship...