Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil rights bill. Washington's most knowing advocates of civil rights legislation thought it would be a good, effective law. Their reasoning: most of the acts denying Negroes in the South the right to vote are performed by men widely known and respected in their communities, i.e., local public officials. Not many such men will want to risk 45 days in jail any more than they would want to risk a greater penalty...
...Tulsa, fatefully true to form, Margaret promptly got a bookkeeper's job in a doctor's office, enrolled Sheila Joy in a local business college. But her resemblance to the FBI description, played up in the newspapers, aroused the suspicions of the office receptionist, who tipped off the police. Margaret's was an old case in the FBI files. She had been playing the same confidence game across the country and offshore under at least 22 different aliases since 1939. Among the accumulated charges: embezzlement in Honolulu, grand theft in Los Angeles, grand larceny in Vancouver...
...home near Havana, found a squad of soldiers scouring the bushes for an insurrecto, lent them a flashlight and went back to bed. Next morning Papa discovered his dog Machakos (breed: "Cuban") dead of a head wound, presumably inflicted with a rifle butt, stormed down to the local military post but got no explanation, mournfully listed the pooch "killed in action...
Lunchtime Conversion. Just as surprising as such programs is the fact that the Fish Creek audiences do not seem to miss the standard festival war horses -the ones Johnson fondly refers to as "the old guys." Not long after Johnson took over the Peninsula Festival five years ago, a local matron murmured to him: "Next summer we won't have any more of this, will...
MILTON ALLEN, 20, a lanky guitarist out of Houston who represents RCA Victor's latest bid for the rocking teen-age market. A panting, heavy-dew singer, Milton was spotted by RCA fieldmen while he was stomping it out on local Houston radio shows. He was hustled to New York, shorn of his Elvis Presley locks, fitted into a grey flannel suit and photographed in Central Park, looking sincere. RCA is pushing him with the trade on two newly released singles: Just Look, Don't Touch, She's Mine and Love A, Love A Lover...