Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Order was restored only when President Carlos Prio Socarrás promised that local markets would be safe for handwork. Hereafter, he decreed, machine-made cigars would be for export only. The big companies, which had already installed 29 machines (displacing 768 workers) and ordered 12 more, refused to accept Prio's decision as final. "Now that we have invested our money," wailed one big producer, "we would be forced to close if this is definitive. Our export market is not large enough to take our full machine output. We need 20% of the home market besides." The battle...
...each day's lap, the panting winner is warmly bussed by the local beauty queen, wined & dined by the citizenry and allowed to wear the coveted yellow sweater (le maillot jaune). The eventual winner of the yellow sweater stands to gain some 5,000,000 /rancs ($15,000) in prize money and commercial premiums. When Italy's Bartali won in 1948, the Pope himself sent a telegram of congratulation and blessing...
McKinney's Mexican settlement is no longer a place apart. Because of Father Vega's work, Texas businessmen donate milk and food to the nursery, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and other civic groups are fixing up a park for the settlement, and the local post of the Legion has invited Mexican veterans to join it for the first time...
...Sense of Belonging. "The appearance of universality is a second source of strength in the Roman Church. She is essentially right in her contention that the church should draw people together rather than set them apart . . . Her people do not join a local society; they are confirmed by the bishop as members of the church which claims to be founded by Peter, the church whose worship is the same throughout the world . . . For the individual this can be a great experience. Instead of traveling through life alone, he is part of a mighty host...
Healthy or Destructive? As far as the N.E.A. could tell from observing them, such organizations capitalize on any local school dispute, move in to push their doctrines during the ruckus, and try to spread the impression that the whole school system is riddled with Reds. "Up to last year," said Richard Kennan to the N.E.A. last week, "we felt it best to ignore their attacks. Now, we have clear evidence of coalition in their efforts . . . We had to come out slugging." The N.E.A.'s recommendation to the public: learn the difference between healthy criticism and destructive criticism, then come...