Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve while a student at the Girls Latin School of Chicago. As co-editor of the weekly four-page mimeographed Neighborhood News (circ. 225), she waged her first crusade against Chicago's dirty streets and the sanitation department's lethargic collection schedules. By selling ads to local merchants, Alice and a friend raised $25, bought the city six new trash cans, and so shamefaced the aldermen that they appropriated $9,000 more for new cans, asked Alice for a list of street corners where she wanted them placed...
...average card has a tag match (two-man teams with the members taking turns mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers appear to slap each other around. Someone is sure to take a mean-looking poke at the referee (an illegal maneuver in Missouri); someone is sure to heave someone else through the ropes (never over; that, too, is frowned upon...
Sponsored mainly by local and regional advertisers and shown against top network shows, the syndies reach huge weekly audiences (as many as 30 million for Highway Patrol). The syndies are so profitable that the networks have formed their own syndication outfits...
...this? Working with local community services, churches, hospitals, welfare agencies, schools, but above all through personal example. The kind of "lay witness" called for is sometimes possible only with close friends, "but the door of personal testimony is never fully closed, and the word spoken by the sincere man . . . carries more weight than he realizes. The 'home with the open door' is everywhere one of the most immediate human influences. As an oil executive, engineer or businessman, [the Christian] should consider his main objective not in terms of dividends for shareholders, or power for America, or prestige...
...some of the years now given to elementary and junior high schools, fill them with high school level courses. ¶ Legislate widespread and continuous federal aid to education. ¶ Keep local control of curriculum, but strengthen schools by the establishment of national minimum standards. Hechinger suggests a National Board of Education Advisers, appointed by the President, from citizens of widely varied occupation. The board, apparently, would determine only the minimum attention given to each subject; Hechinger would rule out "any interference with matters of personnel, curriculum, teaching methods and the selection of textbooks...