Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CEYLON. Since April 1956, when Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike's left-trending government came to power, repeated threats of nationalization have dried up most sources of private capital, foreign and local. In partial compensation, Ceylon has got $20 million from the Soviet bloc, the great bulk of it a grant from Communist China, which is hungry for Ceylon's rubber. Recently a 16-man Soviet delegation came to Colombo to talk over a proposed Soviet credit to finance oil prospecting, expansion of Ceylon's sugar and textile industries and construction of hydroelectric projects. Prospects that the Soviet...
...hands of Communist China, which has adopted its own version of U.S. counterpart aid schemes. Periodically Peking sends Cambodia free shipments of cotton textiles, galvanized iron, raw silk, cement and other Chinese products. These goods-last August shipments were valued at $5,000,000-are sold on the local market by the Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber of the goods is so low-the cement takes twice as long as it should to harden-that even Cambodia's impoverished citizens shun...
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Crisis of the Older Order: "[Insull] dominated Chicago, bribing the state utilities commission, affably encouraging the corruptions of local politics." He took exception to what Kenneth E. Trombley wrote in The Life and Times of a Happy Liberal: "[Insull's career] was to end with his going to jail for embezzlement...
Brann kept his sharpest sting for "the blatant jackasserie" of Waco's entrenched Baptists and their "storm center of misinformation," Baylor University. He needled the local Baptist press for "ladling out saving grace with one hand while raking in the shekels with the other for flaming advertisements of syphilitic nostrums." He riddled one proposal that Baptists do business only with Baptists. He ridiculed Waco's Sunday blue laws, mocked how the town fretted about liquor sales while it licensed prostitutes. He seized avidly on the scandal of a 14-year-old Brazilian girl who, studying at Baylor...
...also suggested matching grants to help local schools recruit more mathematics science teachers, raise salaries and buy equipment, and finally to help the states strengthen the science and mathematics programs in their departments of education. Among the reasons for this request: "Studies indicate that only one out of three high school graduates has had a year of chemistry, only one out of four has taken a year of physics. There is a current shortage of more than 8,000 high school science teachers and yet-of the 5,000 graduates prepared to teach science last year-2,000 went into...