Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Fund of Greater Boston, the charity soliciting agency for United Community Services, needs Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers to canvass local precincts in its annual all-inclusive drive that aids mental hospitals, orphanages and dozens of other charitable institutions...
Waldstein said that he thought the proposed exchange was unique in local dramatic activity...
...family. He has written Renata hundreds of letters but has never received a reply. Several years ago, when Renata was scheduled to sing in Reggio Emilia, where her father now lives, he wrote her how much he looked forward to seeing her again. Renata cabled the manager of the local theater that she would walk out if her father were in the house...
...system." He got a whoop-and-holler ovation, but two days later, with the floor packed by late-arriving delegates from the state's more moderate north, a resolution to support massive resistance drew a 557-557 tie, and this was chalked up as a defeat. Then a "local option" plan for integration won a squeaky 515-513 victory. The next day, for the seventh time in three troubled weeks, Almond dodged reporters, canceled his press conference...
Next morning the local post office is swamped with cables supporting the elephant man. The world's conscience is aroused-or perhaps just its curiosity? In either case, the dentist has become a celebrated crusader. A naturalist sees in him the hope of the world. "Man," he says, "is destroying the plants, the animals, all the living roots that heaven planted in the earth. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed." And the hero concludes: "Who knows? If man begins by saving the elephants...