Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...radio. Master of 15 leading operatic roles and highly regarded by the critics for his warm, rich voice, Thomas won his biggest audiences with his radio shows, was eventually granted special F.C.C. dispensation to sign off with a "personal message" -"Good night, Mother"; of intestinal cancer; in Apple Valley, Calif...
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...
...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...