Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three are women, and only four are blatantly Yankee. Almost all of them, however, have Harvard ties of one sort or another--degrees from the college or graduate schools, teaching positions, or children at Harvard or Radcliffe. Six are lawyers, two are educators, one is a journalist, two are local merchants, one an engineer, one a labor leader, two are former government employess, and the three women all have long records of community service and civic activity...
Thus the U.S.. armed with the local atomic capability of the Sixth Fleet and the worldwide thermonuclear capability of Strategic Air Command, and assured by week's end that a missile speedup was inevitable (see below), moved to meet Khrushchev's crude power play with a readiness to use power, if necessary. How to preserve that power and that diplomatic capability five to ten years hence, in the face of Sputnik's warning, was the heart of the sober second thought in Washington last week...
...rarely met any commoner who was not a servant, was spared the experience of school .by a succession of royal tutors. But Philip, a relatively impoverished princeling, was reared like a commoner, has washed dishes, fired boilers, even played on a skittles team organized by the owner of a local pub. As husband to the Queen, he has literally brought the world to his wife's door, and opened that door wide on the world itself. Artists, writers, businessmen and even trade unionists who would have been shown the back door in Queen Victoria's day now lunch...
...South Dakota cornfield, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rose on the speaker's platform, drew a barrage of half a dozen eggs from local farmers (their peeve: Benson had not answered their letters). After seeing the whites of the farmers' eggs, Benson said gravely: "This doesn't represent the feeling of the people of South Dakota...
Because the library represents a concrete object which can serve as a talking point for the fund in general and because the library is one of the most serious needs of local medical institutions, the fund will attempt to contact individuals and organizations interested in founding and endowing such a library...