Word: waco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trader. Richardson was born in the East Texas town of Athens in 1891, the seventh son of a farmer and cattle raiser. Encouraged and coached by his father, Sid began trading, at 17 made $3,500 by shrewd cattle dealing. For a year and a half he attended Waco's Baylor University and Abilene's Simmons College, left after telling friends that he saw no reason to spend his time in the library when there was so much money to be made on the outside. He served a three-year apprenticeship in the oil business as salesman, scout...
...WACO, Tex., Sept. 30--Federal investigators combed through fragments of a sleek new airliner today seeking the cause of a mystery explosion 15,000 feet in the air which killed 34 persons last night...
...other Texas students are due in London with what is likely to be the oddest U.S. export to Britain this year-an "adult western" version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, produced by Howard Payne College (enrollment: 1,100), a Baptist school in Brownwood, west of Waco...
Anchor Prince. Baylor's furious fountainhead of theater is burningly scornful of academic mediocrity, preaches that "great teaching lies just short of prophecy." His own contribution to anticipating the future has been to establish at the Baptist school in Waco, Texas one of the most fertile experimental theaters in the U.S. In 1953 he startled Shakespeareans with an Othello that split the Moor into three abstractly made-up characters who represented separate aspects of the tormented hero's character. Three years later he persuaded Actor Burgess Meredith to quit his role as Sakini in Teahouse of the August...
Another view of educational problems was offered by Nolan Estes, a graduate student in the Administrative Career Program and currently on leave from the Public Schools of Waco, Texas. Estes urged that school administrators gain a better understanding of the social processes within the community, with the purposes of adapting educational programs to community needs...