Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Juscelino Kubitschek has shipped in 7,000 tons of food and 10,000 tons more is en route. But corruption is commonplace among the local relief agencies that give out the supplies. In one town political bosses pocketed a flat 25% from each man's 30?. In other areas the government farmed out relief projects to private contractors who paid off flage-lados in unwanted goods, e.g., hair oil, then bought it back at half price...
...Caesar of U.S. music had decided to call it quits. "I don't want to get out," he said, "but I'm tired." He added that he would stay on in his $26,000-a-year job as president of Chicago's Local 10 until he can get his half-pay pension ($10,000 a year) from the A.F.M. next year. Union officials began pleading with him to stay on longer...
Down the Bunghole? The grind of pleasure never let up for the next two days. In Mettenheim for the presentation of the golden barrel, the newsmen blearily watched a maypole dance, listened to a glockenspiel band, and sipped beer. When the local burghers clapped at a speech by the U.S. consul general, one Pabst man said incredulously: "For God's sake, these people are taking us seriously...
...householder's roof to case his chimney. Moaned one property owner: "It was like being in an African ant pile. There were so many of them it wouldn't have done any good to kill one." Other get-rich-quick hopefuls delved beneath the gravestones in a local cemetery, pulled up surveyors' stakes in a newly laid-out subdivision...
Stage Struck. Local girl makes good on Broadway -the hard way; with Susan Strasberg. Henry Fonda (TIME, April...