Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wired back: "I don't know that much about Lincoln." Then, he says: 'T studied up a bit on Lincoln hoping they'd ask me back, but they never did." A few years ago. when he was invited to be a summer guest preacher at famed Wellington Church in his home city of Glasgow, he jubilantly wrote his mother the news. "Dear Jamie." she replied, "accept the honor but decline the invitation. You are na' gud enough...
...Bridge Collapses. Then, with brutal suddenness, tragedy struck. The Wellington-Auckland Express, crammed with holidaymakers bound to see the Queen, was winding through the rugged mountains of North Island. High up in the hills (probably as the result of a minor volcanic eruption), a mountain lake burst its banks and sent a torrent of water rushing down the Wangaehu River. As the nine-car train crossed over the Wangaehu Bridge, underpinnings weakened by the surge of water buckled and sagged. Five cars dropped into the river, dragging the engine with them. A sixth teetered drunkenly on the edge...
...Road. In Wellington, New Zealand, Postwoman Nora Guise, 35, was fined ?36 ($100.80) after she admitted that she had tippled on her rounds, carried the day's mail home, burned 20 letters, let the remaining 600 lie around the house...
Last week, as it celebrated its 475th anniversary with a modest dinner in Manhattan (and no ceremony at all in London), the Press could boast branch offices in Melbourne, Toronto. Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Wellington, Karachi, Glasgow, Cape Town and Ibadan, as well as a whole separate corporation in the United States. It is the only book publisher with its own paper mill; it has the world's largest permanent catalogue (10,000 titles), (the largest stock 15 million volumes) and probably the biggest sales (nearly 10 million books a year from the British list alone). The grandfather...
Married. Randolph Adolphus ("Randy") Turpin, 25, British middleweight boxing champion; and Gwyneth Price, 27, daughter of a Welsh farmer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Wellington, England...