Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles has its own odd set of local customs. It has few basements and fewer furnaces and almost every house has an "incinerator" in the backyard-a reinforced concrete stove with a screened stack for burning rubbish and gaper. Its real-estate men still hang up strings of flags to advertise a house for sale. Its love of the unusual extends even to the young -high-school boys at Van Nuys began dyeing their hair green this spring, to the dismay of parents and teachers...
...jail riots brought up Congress big guns. Prime Minister Nehru, who seldom intervenes in local elections, sent a message endorsing faithful Suresh Das, decrying Bose's tactics: "I fail to see how unbalanced attacks on Congress and destructive criticism can help the country in any way." Deputy Prime Minister Sardarj Patel was blunter: "China, Malaya and Burma have all a lesson to teach us. If we fail to learn it, Bengal would be the first to suffer...
...week's end, two powerful voices joined the counterattack. "Teachers are being intimidated," said the national Phi Beta Kappa society, "and students are being led to believe that colleges dare no longer engage in the disinterested pursuit of truth." The society warned local chapters to resist "such emotional pressure." Then Harvard University spoke...
Died. Colonel Harry Cooper (ret.), 52, onetime Secret Service agent (1921-42) and part-time personal bodyguard to four Presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt), wartime provost marshal in the CBI theater who uncovered a $10 million air-smuggling ring operated by Army Air Forces men and local racketeers; by his own hand (.45-caliber automatic); in Baltimore...
Advance word on the combination crew is slim since it is untested in combat, but the general superiority of local oarsmen make it likely that Bolles can scrape together eight spare men with less trouble than Yale's Alan Walz...