Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waynesburg, Pa., a coal-mining community 25 miles north of the West Virginia border, Waynesburg College has a tiny, 65-acre campus and a total enrollment of 1,125-399 of them coeds. Also coeducational, also Presbyterian, and only slightly larger (1,366 undergraduates), Westminster is located in New Wilmington, Pa., a farm town of cobblestoned streets and a single stoplight. Neither college tries to compete with the big-time football foundries in recruiting high-school stars; neither pampers its athletes with snap courses or "laundry money." "We give no outright scholarships at all," says Westminster Coach Harold Burry...
Died. Katherine Thompson Wood, 74, wealthy Wilmington and Philadelphia society matron and elder sister...
James Thompson, the Thailand silk millionaire who has been missing since March; of a brutal beating inflicted by an unknown assailant in the bedroom of her mansion 15 miles west of Wilmington, Del. Her death was as mysterious as her brother's disappearance: there was no sign of forced entry, and none of her valuables was missing...
General Motors sent home 4,000 day-shift workers from its Linden, N.J., plant and canceled operations at five other facilities. Laboratories, factories and offices throughout the heavily industrialized region also shut down. Schoolchildren got an unexpected holiday; police and firemen were called in for emergency shifts. At a Wilmington medical center, a 10-lb. 2-oz. boy was born by flashlight...
Emergency Solution. Coal miners near Wilkes-Barre scurried 300 ft. to the surface when fans that dissipate dangerous fumes failed. Two window washers spent two hours and 18 minutes outside the 16th floor of the Farmers Bank Building in Wilmington, passing the time waving at office girls in the building across the street. In a darkened Philadelphia building, where a federal committee to study ways of handling emergency situations was in session, its nine members solved their own by walking down nine flights to the street...