Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early-morning newspaper route; he sold Bibles in West Virginia during the summer, and still ran out of money in his sophomore year and had to quit school. He hitchhiked West, dug storm sewers in Denver, earned some of his hardest-won dollars as a sparring partner in a local gymnasium until he was undone by a middleweight named Gentleman Ham Jenkins. After that he landed a job as a ranch hand in Wyoming's Jackson Hole country...
...trouble arose over the promise of a series of local elections. A group of anti-Istiqlal Berber leaders and wealthy independents petitioned the Premier for guarantees of "democratic freedoms" against the arbitrary electioneering tactics they feared the powerful Istiqlal might use. When the Premier sent the petition on to the King, the Istiqlal members of the government resigned in a body. The King had no alternative but to dismiss the Premier...
...eyed, wistful Princess Soraya Esfandiari Bakhtiari, 25, divorced wife of Iran's Shah, arrived in Manhattan aboard the liner Constitution, hoping for privacy, found instead some 125 press and TV reporters at dockside to welcome her. With eager local newsmen breathlessly reporting every other step, the shapely princess shopped on Fifth Avenue, dined at East Side nightspots, at week's end sailed off for some Bermuda sun-and probably some Bermuda privacy as well...
...Local Protestant sources estimate only 5,000 more church members than Graham did. The Roman Catholic Church claims at least 100,000 Sunday worshippers...
...editors of the CRIMSON go into a figorous training program today for a coming series of softball games with various local organizations, among them the CRIMSON Network (WHRB) and the Crimson Printing Company. Although the Crime has been established as a solid 11 1/2-1 favorite in both contests, the rigors of training will prevent publication of the breakfast table daily on all Saturday starting tomorrow...