Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anchorage the Alaskan press club organized a great reception. The penguins were renamed Egegik (an Alaskan name) and Angela (Italian) Kinglea (meaning very good friend). They consumed their first meal in the Far North, consisting of hooligans (local fish) and salmon...
...Attorney General William P. Rogers to make good on his promise to call the federal grand jury to investigate a possible violation of civil rights by Birmingham's police force. Six weeks ago Birmingham's cops arrested three Negro ministers from Montgomery who were caught talking with local Negro leaders about a possible bus boycott, charged them with vagrancy. Said Birmingham's police chief, Eugene Connor, who refused even to discuss the case with FBI agents: "I haven't got any damn apology to the FBI or anybody else. Maybe I just didn't tell...
...that all the disengagement schemes so far suggested would be just as unacceptable to Russia as they are to the West. The upheavals in East Germany, Hungary and Poland have surely convinced Moscow that withdrawal of Soviet troops from any of the satellites would spell the downfall of the local Communist regime...
...world through "European eyes," the Republicans, while they correctly recognized the importance of Asia as a unique political area, made the mistake of regarding foreign policy as essentially military policy. Thus the fiasco of unleashing Chiang ("In an effort to create a world balance of power, we upset the local balance of power"), thus the Baghdad Pact ("Just because NATO worked in Europe, people thought the idea best for every region"), thus the utopian SEATO pipe dream ("We've armed an awful lot of people in Asia who would never think of firing a gun, not even at a Chinese...
...order to find out, Dillon first seduces and then gets engaged to the Elliot daughter, Josie, a member of the English equivalent of our local rock-'n'-roll-hair-curlers-and-chewing-gum set, who is neither warm, generous, nor particularly honest-to-goodness...