Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the Out of Town stand carries papers from all over the country many students have started reading their hometown papers, although most come in a day or two late. Of course since since just about everybody comes from New York anyway this is not too much of a problem...
...them, Clyde Kennard, 35, never came close. A Korea paratroop veteran, Kennard attempted three years ago to register at the University of Southern Mississippi, in his hometown of Hattiesburg. While he was talking to Mississippi Southern's president, local law officials "discovered" illegal liquor in his car and arrested him. Convicted and fined on the liquor offense, Kennard was still appealing the case when he was convicted as an accessory in the theft of five sacks of chicken mash. His alleged accomplice, an illiterate 14-year-old Negro who said he had actually stolen the stuff and turned...
...directors, their fears of absentee ownership apparently lulled by Newhouse assurances, accepted his bid of $40,065,780. All that intervened was a meeting of principal stockholders to ratify the board's decision. But last week, at the last moment. Outsider Newhouse lost his Omaha prize to a hometown...
...Hughes Tool Co.. a giant defense contractor. The loan, which went to support the ailing grocery and restaurant business of Nixon's brother Donald, was made secretly through a Hughes attorney and secured by a filling-station lot owned by Nixon's mother in hometown Whittier. Donald went broke the following year, and the filling station property-on which a commercial lender had offered to put up only $92.000-was accepted by Hughes in full settlement of the debt...
Grocery Cart. The Gold Cup's eventual winner was no surprise to the fans. In three furious heats, Hometown Driver Bill Muncey, 33, pushed his orange and white Miss Century 21-owned by Seattle's Willard Rhodes, head of the Thriftway grocery chain-to an average speed of 100 m.p.h. for the 90 miles, deftly sliding around the hazardous turns, hanging on for dear life in the booming straights. Grinned Muncey, as he climbed out of the boat, "That's the fastest little grocery cart in town...