Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weekly ballots will be circulated for opinion on each of the subjects calculated to determine national opinion, and then passed on to policy-makers in Washington. Local television shows and publicity notices are planned in the Boston area to raise questions and stimulate discussions during the two-month period...
...Akihito downed green tea and bean cakes at a sedate trio of parties (one with his kin, another with Fiancee Michiko Shoda, a third with 60 old classmates at Gakushuin University), tentatively accepted a birthday gift designed to cement the bonds between the budget-conscious imperial family and a local construction firm: an offer to build the foundations and outer shell (cost: $150,000) of Akihito's new, 45-room palace for a kowtowing $27.78. Apparently more concerned with imperial honor than with imperial bargains, however, Tokyo's noisy newspapers uncorked howls that the bid was an "insulting...
...captors treated him kindly, and after a while he quieted down, announced that his name was Koi and that he was a Xetá. He was sent to Curitiba, where he was taught to speak Portuguese and was brought up almost like a son by the director of the local office of the Indian Protection Service. In civilized clothes he did not look unusual except for a hole punched in his lower lip. This, Koi explained, was for a 2-in. tusk that Xetá males wear in the jungle to frighten off enemies and evil spirits...
...hence a sin. But hardheaded Otto Dibelius and other church leaders in East Germany decided they must henceforth emphasize the church's readiness to forgive; youngsters who submit to the Red ceremonies but repent of their action will be admitted to confirmation at the discretion of the local minister...
...over the country hack writers and local newspaper wits are turning out their predictions for 1959. As every reader knows, these essays are uniformly hilarious, because there are so many riotous things one can say about things one knows nothing about. The CRIMSON, refusing to bow to this bourgeois trend, herewith publishes its serious forecast of things to come...