Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christmas Eve the Johnsons will set tables on the lawn and be hosts to about 100 local farmers, village headmen and their families. There will be plenty of curry, hot dogs, ham and soft drinks, as well as native reed-pipe music, color slides and movies. Next day, precisely at noon, surrounded by gifts of native handiwork-fish traps, bamboo baskets, buffalo and cattle bells, even blow guns-Alex and Elsie Johnson will sit down to Christmas dinner. And back home in Miami it will be midnight on Christmas...
Whenever and wherever the itchy-footed U.S. tourist goes beyond his own borders, he runs a high risk of coming down with diarrhea. For this spoilsport condition he has a variety of evocative names,* and he invariably blames it on the local food and water, which he suspects of harboring amoebae or other low and exotic forms of life. In this he is almost certain to be wrong, said Manhattan's Dr. B. H. Kean in a report to the A.M.A. For all its global prevalence and frequent severity (it can touch off fever and vomiting, lead to dehydration...
Right in the Eyes. Nights, Miyoshi would listen to the local U.S. Army radio station, to Dinah Shore and Peggy Lee and Doris Day, and try to copy them. After her graduation from school, her teacher took the class to a hotel, gave them a lesson in how to use a knife and fork; then they were deemed ready for the world. But the professional bands were not ready for Miyoshi ("They thought I was the little country bear from Hokkaido"). Eventually, though, she became a hit on Japanese radio and TV. For three years she hardly ever...
Stewardesses at Pacific Northern Airlines, which flies from Portland, Ore. to the chief cities in Alaska, last week protested a plan to retire them at 32. Said Marilyn Batey, 32, chairman of the local stewardesses' union: ''They say you get frumpy and frowzy. Humph! You haven't lost the romance of life when you get to be 32." The stewardesses also protested a management ban on ski pants. Complained Noni Myers: "They want us to have just this thin veil of nylon between us and the elements at 40 to 60 below zero...
...like the idea of forcing people to take oaths for special reasons," Seymour E. Harris '20, president of the local chapter of the AAUP, explained yesterday. "Why is it necessary for a student to sign an affidavit just because he is borrowing money?" he asked. The Association's protest also claimed that loyalty oaths will not uncover any person who belongs to a subversive organization, since these individuals "have no scruples about signing such affidavits...