Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given Libya $64 million) withdrew their support. Libya's meager exports of esparto grass (for paper currency), olive oil, nuts and camels pay for only a fraction of its imports, and U.S. grants total more than half Libya's annual budget. Rumors rife in Libya of local mismanagement of allied funds are small encouragement to pull out U.S. technicians and let the Libyans spend away on their own. Most of the charges of corruption swirl about a fringe-bearded son of a cousin of King Idris' known as the Black Prince, whose SASCO construction company is currently...
...Fabian go to a voice teacher-three voice teachers, in fact, before one was willing to keep him as a pupil. Then Fabian made a couple of records that were duds. Undaunted, Marcucci embarked on a publicity campaign. He sent Fabian on a road tour, got him shots on local disk-jockey programs, and ran trade-paper teasers that screamed in big black type, "Fabian is coming!" "Who is Fabian?" Then came the clincher: "Fabian is here...
...added that it would also require vesting all power over education in state rather than in local school boards, and a change in labor's attitude towards apprentice training. He asserted that it would be easier to improve the present educational system than attempt to replace...
...Memphis. Joe Grant, the victim's brother, grimly decides to get out, and travels north to New Jersey, determined to pass as a white man. The scene changes to a Trenton lush with palm trees, Negro retainers and a hand-kissing aristocracy. Enter Joe. He latches onto a local blonde and takes her swimming, an activity they both enjoy stripped to the waist. Then he switches to a sausage maker's two daughters, seduces one in the bathroom, the other in the bedroom. Soon, Joe and one of the hot-dog girls are fleeing for Canada...
...years ago in Cleveland (TIME, July 1, 1957), when the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,401,565) agreed to merge with the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 807,280). Working out an organic union between the two bodies is no simple matter; in Congregationalism each local church is entirely autonomous, whereas the Evangelical and Reformed Church is set up in the European tradition of pyramidal administrative authority. The first order of business before the 700 delegates who met in Oberlin last week for the second General Synod of the merging churches was consideration...