Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...origins had deep earthly roots in Prussian Junkerdom. A Von Braun fought the Mongols at Liegnitz in 1245, and the family's aristocracy was certified by the centuries. Wernher was born in Wirsitz, East Prussia (now part of Poland), the middle son of Baron Magnus von Braun, the local state administrator. Today Wernher's older brother, Sigismund, is counselor at the German embassy in London; his younger brother, Magnus, is program-control manager of the Chrysler Corp.'s new missile division in Detroit. Last week in a comfortable Oberaudorf apartment, Baron Magnus von Braun, tanned and vigorous...
...Madison Co. seat; 5 mi. from U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, Ballistic Missile Agency, Ordnance Guided Missile School; 2 R.R. lines (Southern Ry., Louisville and Nashville R.R.); 2 airlines (8 fits, out dly., incl. drct. srvce. to N.Y., Wash., Chi., Atlanta, Miami); Accoms.: 3 hotels, 21 motels; Local bus fare: 10?; Swim: muncpl. pools; Fish: Tenn. River; Yrly. evnts.: Catholic Festival (Aug.), co. fair (Sept.); i-hr. pkng. Imt. dwntwn.; Avge. temp.: 74.6 deg. summer, 50 deg. winter...
...cried Michigan's Pat McNamara. With Massachusetts' John Kennedy, McNamara co-sponsored a bill to fatten state unemployment benefits and make them run for 39 weeks instead of the now-usual 26. Tennessee's Albert Gore introduced a bill to boost federal aid to state and local governments for public-works projects. In keeping with a grand design sketched out by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson-who was working on the economy when not busy with space-Senate Democrats were drafting six other recession-inspired bills, calling for increased federal spending for: roads (Gore), housing (Alabama...
PRICE CUTTING by big corporations to meet local marketing conditions, long opposed by the FTC, is O.K. U.S. Supreme Court ended 17-year legal wrangle between Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) and FTC, which argued that such flexibility will nullify price discrimination laws...
...gets mixed up, first of all, in Vietnamese politics, by supporting (with arms as well as money) a general through whom he hopes to create a "Third Force" between the local right and left. And he gets mixed up with Phuong. The American is terribly fair about the girl. He tells the Englishman, even before he tells Phuong, that he has fallen in love with her. He intends, he says, to marry her and take her back to "the folks in Texas," and he belligerently allows to Fowler (whose wife, back in England, will not give him a divorce) that...