Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby U.S. Air Base and a ground radar man had detected the fourth and last reflector drifting off on his scope, police, summoned by the radarman, found the reflector loaded on the bicycle of Shigeru Takagi, 32, who confessed that he had taken the others, but grumbled that a local pawnshop had paid him only $2.78 apiece...
...Downgraded Nationalist China's decade-old hope of returning to the mainland, added that even if mainland Chinese staged a Hungary-type revolt against Communism, "it would probably be primarily under local auspices and local leadership ... It would be hypothetical and problematical as to whether or not it would involve the going back of Chiang as the head of the government." ¶Implied that the U.S. was no longer holding out for a formal cease-fire agreement, would be willing to negotiate Chiang's forces out of Quemoy if the Communists would just stop shooting. ¶Denied Chiang...
...each stop he was well briefed on local grievances, had a special potion for local ailments. In Indianapolis he reminded internecine Indiana conservatives of their common enemy: "The radical A.D.A., which dominates the Democratic National Committee." In Los Angeles he pitched a more moderate appeal to California's golden harvest of independent votes: "Forget for the moment whether you are Republicans or Democrats...
...Indiana, California and Oregon Nixon helped all the local causes by laying down a hard and quotable Republican line on national issues. Items...
However this may be, there is no one who does not regard the new situation as regrettable. Athletic Director Tom Bolles has been the target of some unfair blame in this connection in local "jock" circles. Bolles is as sorry as anyone about things; but he has simply had to find some way of getting along with less money...