Word: localitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night to see Mao, he was lectured like an errant schoolboy. Complaining to Foreign Minister Chen Yi, Subandrio was answered in "brutal and arrogant" language. Roused again on his last night in Peking, he was pressured into a joint communiqué promising respect for "proper rights and interests" of local Chinese, then bundled off home...
...group wanted the Stadium because it has the largest capacity of any local playing field, its parking facilities are relatively good, and the Harvard name would be an asset. The owners had built many of their plans around the Stadium and now must seek one of four alternative sites in the area...
Experience and conditioning will be on Harvard's side this Saturday when the team opens against Army at West Point. Since Nov. 10 the Crimson raquetmen have been playing local squash clubs, and once laced M.I.T.'s top men, five matches to nothing...
...bookstore. By 1912, he was in Kansas City, determined to make a go of greeting cards. The venture almost died as soon as it started; Hall was $17,000 in debt when a flash fire wiped out his printing plant. Luckily, he was able to sweet-talk a local bank into an unsecured $25,000 loan, and he has not taken a step back since. By the late 19303, Hallmark was one of the top three cards...
Handsome Profits. The one complaint that Aussies have about foreign capital is the lack of opportunity for local participation in the new companies. Only about 40 of the U.S. manufacturing subsidiaries are publicly owned, and of these only eleven have some degree of Australian ownership. But the Aussie who invests in a domestic company can make handsome profits on his own. In a land that is turning out its own diesel engines, railroad cars, jet aircraft and transistor radios, stocks are an investor's dream. Ansett Transport Industries, Clyde Industries (engineering), Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (steel...