Word: localize
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...Latin America. With one exception (The New York Times), TIME was the first U.S. publication to maintain a regular news bureau in Canada and in Latin America. At present we have three news bureaus in Canada -in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto- each headed by a bureau chief, and 24 local correspondents (called "string correspondents" or "stringers") in as many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local newspaper like the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Tribune, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, or the Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) Blade. During the last six months the news file from Canada...
Latin America also has three news bureaus - in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires - a full-time roving correspondent, and 12 stringers strategically placed from Puerto Rico to Chile. Their job, of course, is to watch for news stories of more than local interest, cover special assignments for TIME'S editors, answer their queries, and keep them filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying and thinking. This they do to the extent of some 200,000 words a month...
Cried Judge Silbert: "A dirty trick! .. . I can't read 200 [divorce decrees] a week. I sign whatever is placed before me ... I've got to trust the attaches of this court. . ." The judge soon cooled off and wanted to forget the whole thing. But the local bar associations demanded that Reporter Hammer be punished...
Cried Preacher Fifield: "We think Congregationalism has a unique genius to contribute to the cause of freedom in the U.S. The merger will destroy that-the autonomous, free, local church in contrast to the capital-C church on the national level...
...what local churches do or do not do about the new United Church of Christ is, according to the terms of the merger, up to them. Following good Congregational practice, all must vote individually whether to change names, merge congregations, or just go along as though nothing had happened. The two denominations will definitely become one only on the national level, in their programs for Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Christian Education and Social Action...