Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eager audiences last week thronged to look at a modern, Broadway-styled musical comedy dealing with a local subject. Its title: Moscow-Cheryomushki. Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich...
Last week Chuck Medick began tuning up at local tournaments for the National Table Tennis Championships at Inglewood, Calif, in March, where he hopes to break his own record of scoring 54 matches at table tennis' biggest event. Medick's refereeing is uncanny, although he cannot quite explain the secret: "I just do something a blind man can do well -make his ears and sense of location work for him." He is helped by the fact that table tennis is one of the few sports that make sense being heard and not seen. Medick discovered this in college...
Hypos & Photos. The current Missouri flurry got its impetus two football seasons ago, when eight Kansas City high-school students piled into two jalopies and roared off to see a game in Oklahoma City. Local teen-agers showed them how to extract the amphetamine from a Valo inhaler and inject it with a hypodermic needle. (Oldfashioned ways of getting the kick by chewing the cartridge or drinking beer in which it had been swished around were no longer popular, because Pfeiffer had added a bitter, nauseating chemical.) The venturesome eight had a ball -and spread the craze back home...
...When the Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed its story on Mikoyan's TV interview, it omitted the name of the program on which he appeared, and that of the broadcasting company (NBC's Meet the Press). Editors are particularly pained at picking up news stories developed by local TV stations. In Chicago some rewritemen still invoke the old unwritten city-room rule to omit the names of the show and the station on which a local TV newsbeat originated...
Does a newspaper publisher have the right to move into a town, drive an existing paper out of business, and establish a local newspaper monopoly? Last week a U.S. district court gave its answer...