Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Geneva truce, when hordes of refugees from the Communist North flooded into his parish, Father Jacques's life became busier than ever. "Priests," said the local Communist leader, "are always on the side of rich men." But the parishioners of Giadinh knew better, seeing their priest trudging wearily on his daily errands and returning to his tumbledown vicarage riddled with termites. Their juiciest fruits and biggest duck eggs were reserved for the father's table...
...Fixture. Grandfather Lanin started the family in the band business 118 years ago in Europe. Lester's father, also a bandleader, traveled to local weddings and hoedowns around Philadelphia in a creaking wagon, raised a family of nine musicians. Young Lester got an early taste of what society likes to dance to by hanging around the ballroom of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel and listening through the doors. By the early '30s he had heard enough to move to New York and start out on his own. During the war he piped for charity and service balls...
Most people can take repeated stings by bees or related insects of the order Hymenoptera with no worse effects than local pain and brief swelling. But some become increasingly more sensitive after successive stings, to the point of a severe, body-wide allergic reaction or even death. Every summer such severe sting reactions are a major problem to doctors; treatment consists in giving antihistamines and adrenalin or a hormone of the cortisone family. But researchers are busy on ways to prevent such cases by helping sensitized victims regain the normal degree of immunity...
...Federal disease detectives joined state and local health officials in the search for the cause of a mysterious epidemic of pneumonia (75 cases so far) that has swept through Austin. Minn. (pop. 23,000) and lapped at nearby Rochester (pop. 30,000), home of the famed Mayo Clinic. The pneumonia has been unusually severe: delirious patients have had to be restrained; three elderly victims, previously in poor health, have died. So far, none of the microbes known to cause pneumonia have been identified...
...early '50s, was to make it seem as if bodies in trunks were arriving hourly at Union Station-and when one did, Richardson expected every staffer to hop on the story as if the next body might be his own. When Richardson himself scored the biggest local beat of the decade-a 32-column exclusive on the prison love notes exchanged by Beulah Overell and her boy friend while awaiting trial for the yacht murder of her parents in 1947-he bragged that the $1 Examiner was selling on the streets of Los Angeles for $1 a copy...