Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born & Bred G.O.P. Halleck's mother and father, both lawyers and Lincoln-loving Republican workers, christened him (Aug. 22, 1900) Charles Abraham Halleck, called him "Little Abe." At 14 he worked furiously in local campaigns, hauled voters to the polls as soon as he was old enough to drive a car. In 1917 he signed up as an infantry private, developed his parade-ground voice (the House's second loudest, after Illinois' Noah Mason), won lieutenant's bars Stateside before flu struck him down. At Indiana University, one of the big playing fields for future Hoosier...
...Evil Tendency." In Indonesia, left-wing groups that usually support the Reds had been ecstatic in their welcome of Tito, but Indonesia's local Communists, mindful of Tito's heretical brand of Marxism, alternately tried to ignore Tito's presence, belittle it, or by indirection attack it. Peking's press and radio denounced him as a "running dog of imperialism," and headlined the claim: DRUNKENNESS IN YUGOSLAVIA RANKS SECOND IN WORLD. After Tito had left Bali, the Red-lining Indonesian newspaper Bintang Timur accused him of "carrying out a Western mission...
...happy Nizam proudly recited three Persian odes that he had composed himself. He garlanded them with flowers, after first pointing out that never before had a Nizam so bedecked a bride and groom, and in a burst of generosity made a cash grant of $21 a month to two local orphanages. The Nizam also promised to build the couple a palace next to his own, and settled on them a trust fund of undisclosed size-something he did not do for any of the five other begum daughters he has married...
Agog with glory after his fast tour as a "freelance newsman" trailing Fidel Castro's rebels in bar-bereft Cuba, where his trained eye zeroed in on the local frails, thirsted mightily for a stiffer mode of life ("Water to me is undrinkable"), and scribbled notebooks full of tidbits for a biography of Hero Fidel ("We're on a first-name basis"), paunchy Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 49, swashbuckled into Manhattan to praise his friend. "I've admired this man for at least two years," said Flynn, leaning heavily on the Disneylandish bar (fuchsia with pink lights...
...rare TV appearances in a filmed mellerdrama), veteran Hoofer Fred Astaire, 60, shared a grin on the set with misty-eyed Daughter Ava (she pronounces it Ah-va), 16, who with Daddy's encouragement studies drama at her tony Hollywood finishing school, does her lab work in local amateur theatricals...