Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain once won an award as top dive-bomber pilot in the Navy. During the war he served overseas on aircraft carriers . . . with one tour of duty as director of Naval Air Transport Service. Since his arrival at Quonset Point in February 1948, his relations both with the local civilians and the civil service employees have been of the highest order. An example of his thoughtfulness and loyalty to his civil service employees occurred just before Christmas of 1948 when a disastrous fire swept the engine overhaul shop at Quonset. The captain went to considerable effort to insure that...
International UNESCO day, New England branch, came to roost in Sanders Theater last night as the United Nations Council played host for the finale of the local celebration...
...That control and direction of the organization's affairs lie entirely within the jurisdiction of its members, and that affiliation with national groups may be made only on the basis of complete local autonomy...
Princess Margaret, 18, who has not been able to move on her Italian vacation without sending the local press into spasms of purple prose, drew support from home in her pleas for privacy. Said the London Times: "It would be a fair concession ... if a closed season were now agreed upon; and the Princess will return better for her holiday if she can be treated as a young woman quietly enjoying her first sight of an ancient land, and not as a peep show." Cracked the London News Chronicle: "Perhaps she is enjoying...
...preaching. True to pattern, U.S. Army 1st Lieut. Robert Gordon is a man of good will and hazy intention when he gets to Macao on leave. He and a German Jewish refugee doctor help a striking native laborer who has been injured; for this, the doctor is murdered by local reactionaries, and the police are blandly indifferent. Lieut. Gordon leaves on the next steamer for Hong Kong, but at least he has decided which side he is on: when the British skipper invites him to the bridge, Gordon chooses to remain with the huddled natives below...