Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desperate mayor of Sogne reinforced his police force (one man) with 40 others from the nearby city of Kristiansand, and the Sogne militia was alerted for the first time since the war. A battle of organists erupted briefly in the Lutheran church, with the aged local man reportedly being elbowed aside for a more accomplished player from Kristiansand. Back in the States, reporters tracked down Anne-Marie's uncle, Andrew Swenson. at whose Bronx home she stayed when she first came to the U.S. in 1956. A New York City mounted policeman. Uncle Andrew took a melancholy stance beside...
...Starving mobs have halted freight trains and looted the cars of food. Confidently using the tactics employed against them in Kerala, the Reds fired off a 53-page "charge sheet" against the West Bengal administration of Chief Minister Dr. B. C. Roy, the 77-year-old leader of the local Congress Party, accusing his regime of corruption, misrule, nepotism and graft -much of it true. A "Famine Resistance Committee" drew up plans for mass defiance of the law and set August 20 as the trysting...
Britain's press with heartfelt congratulations and a bit of "will-she-ever" worry. At the royal family gathering in Scotland's Balmoral Castle, only one romantic mystery added spice to the day. An orchid corsage, ordered by cable from the U.S., was delivered by a local florist, who refused to name the donor...
...Dick Dudgeon, the imposturing knave of the title, Actor Douglas gnashes his teeth - as well as the arch dialogue -and looks less like the male Candida that Shaw intended than like a Sportin' Life in tights. Actor Lancaster, as the local parson, glooms away Shaw's most romantic scenes as if he were lost on a Brontë moor. In a climactic scene of comic derring-do, ex-Acrobat Lancaster makes heroic hash of a colonial court house and all the Redcoats in it. Otherwise he is as stiff and starchy as the clerical collar he eventually gives...
...squeeze on money. Because of the new boom, there has been a large rise in business loans, which have soared from a recession low of $52 billion in May 1958 to $58 billion last month. Heavy Government financing ($13 billion deficit last year), a record volume of state and local fund-raising in the first half of 1959, and a jump in consumer credit have added to the competition for funds. Following the surge, interest rates on bank business loans in 19 major cities went from 4.17% in 1958's second half to 4.87% in June -and are expected...