Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home to Moscow from Peking, Khrushchev could not avoid seeing for himself that his country was still far from the wonderland of the yearbooks. At Vladivostok, citizens flooded him with letters of complaint about inadequate housing and consumer goods shortages. To his open anger, Khrushchev also discovered that the local commissars had dressed up their normally bare shopwindows especially for his visit. Last week, hard on the heels of Nikita's arrival in Moscow, a decree went out for a 42% increase in the value of consumer goods output by 1961. Among the items to be stepped up: television...
...state of Kerala, Communist Boss E.M.S. Namboodiripad saw his hopes of recapturing the state government go glimmering, admitted that his party's "refusal to denounce China" would strengthen the hand of his democratic opponents in Kerala's coming elections. In Bombay state, as the price of a local alliance with their old foes, the Praja Socialists, Red leaders signed a resolution expressing support for "the Prime Minister and the government of India, in defense of the territorial integrity of our great country," then muttered complex explanations to angry party diehards. Unappeased, Puran Joshi, editor of the party weekly...
...School Committee. At first, Barnes concentrated his campaign on this point, but he found it a deadening issue and has changed his ground to the National Defense Education Act loyalty oath and the future of Rindge Technical High School. He is particularly disturbed about the implications of NDEA for local school employees; under sections of the Act pertaining to guidance and foreign language training, the jobs of people hired by local school boards can become dependent upon willingness to sign the loyalty affidavit. "NDEA is not only a University problem," Barnes says, "and Cambridge citizens should understand how this obnoxious...
...School Committee sessions is the worst part of a job that no one but Al Vellucci wants.) Barnes--the perennial "man around the campus"--is an interesting new face on the scene. His obvious energy and enthusiasm will win him votes, if not a hearing among the more cynical local politicians...
...Although local papers have blown Hoffa's withdrawal "somewhat out of proportion," Samuels explained, the Forum's plans will not be greatly upset...