Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chris Finkbeiner made hay in Warren, it was Lee Ward ("He'd be a cinch if Lee was his last name") who hit pay dirt in Jonesboro, simply by taking on Orval Faubus in a tough, plain-talking speech. "The real reason why Orval Faubus occupied a local unit of government with armed troops," said Candidate Ward, "was revealed when he made substantially this statement: 'I have got to use the National Guard at Central High School to ensure my election to a third term as Governor.' And there you have the whole integration issue...
Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...federal entomologists ordered up all available spraying and poison-bait-spreading equipment for a cooperative federal, state and local property-owner field-by-field battle on hoppers, Colorado's Democratic Governor Steve McNichols led a delegation to Washington and urged stepped-up federal aid. (Colorado's legislature had refused to set up emergency funds for such disasters.) Warned McNichols: "They're crawling all over the land right now. If they take flight, the good Lord only knows where they...
...breakfast. Typical breakfast -fruit-oranges, bananas, local berries, other fruit in season. Cereal-oatmeal, or cold dry, according to season. Heavy cream. Meat, fish, eggs-corned beef hash with eggs; fresh fried blackfish with salt pork; ham or bacon with eggs; creamed chicken (left over) on toast, etc. Honey or marmalade on toast made over open fire...
...back for a return match and said, when she came back two days later: "My name is Jack Paar. I'm the announcer on the Zsa Zsa Gabor show." Paar was a gallant loser. Closing out their first show, he explained: "When I saw her on a little local show in California ... I wanted her right away." Unwilling to let a man have the last word, Zsa Zsa interrupted: "Nobody gets me right away...