Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of what some critics may say, the solution lies not in the abolition of the fraternity system, but in the pressure of public opinion on the national organizations to force their chapters to use only the long-established formal rituals and not replace or supplement them with local juvenile pranks and potential murders...
Marking 28 million Xs on ballot papers that carried no mark of party affiliations but simply the names of their parliamentary candidates in 630 local constituencies, the voters of the British Isles last week gave Maurice Harold Macmillan, 65, a smashing personal triumph in one of the most decisive and significant political battles of the postwar era. Macmillan had led his party to its third straight victory and doubled its majority in the House of Commons, a feat without parallel in the annals of British politics. Overcoming a slashing Labor Party challenge, he had won his own mandate to rule...
...writes that he has developed "a certain scepticism about the depth and range of purely contemporary issues; it is likely that many of those which seem highly important today will also in a generation have receded to the status of the local and provincial.... The value (of the history of philosophy) in giving perspective and a sense of proportion in relation to immediate contemporary issues can hardly be overestimated... (Plato) still provides my favorite philosophic reading...
...H.A.A. will not issue complimentary football tickets to local youngsters for any of the games this year, Donald M. Felt, assistant Director of Athletics stated yesterday. He added, however, that there may be free admission for organized youth groups to next year's non-Ivy contests...
...ball games after the fans have headed towards their cars. His Big Red team eked out a 20-15 win over non-Ivy Colgate three Saturdays ago with 19 seconds left to play. And last week, of course, Cornell won with 24 seconds left, in a local game that Cambridge residents would just as soon forget...