Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balance in the next U.S. House of Representatives. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele traveled to Kansas and Iowa; Denver Bureau Chief Barron Beshoar covered Nebraska; Chicago Correspondent Ed Reingold moved into Ohio; Chicago Correspondent Jon Rinehart reported on Indiana, Missouri and Minnesota; Chicago Correspondent Mark Perlberg filed on Illinois; local correspondents added their on-the-spot knowledge. For the results, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Midwestern Battleground...
Such overall issues, when boiled down to specific congressional district campaigns, are often less important than personalities or local problems. But the issues have shaped a general Midwestern pattern that finds a score of Republican incumbents and only a few Democratic officeholders being seriously challenged. Some key races in key Midwestern states...
...week's end Dulles got the word that Red China was extending its Quemoy cease-fire for another fortnight. "This is not a betrayal," Red China's local commanders felt it necessary to assure their troops in a special proclamation. "This is a racial righteousness. We must draw a clear-cut line between the Chinese and the Americans." The crude Communist pitch: to split Chinese Nationalists off from the U.S. But whatever Red China's reasons for cease-fire's extension, the first fact about Quemoy was that Red China, after 44 days of shelling...
Dealers still had a tough time finding enough cars to sell. Local strikes idled General Motors workers. Most of Plymouth's production was shut down. Among the Big Three, only Ford rolled in full production. Chevrolet announced that it had enough dealer orders to produce full speed for 60 to 90 days. But strikebound Chevy had produced only 14,800 of the '593 for its 7,500 dealers...
...Cantonese. Happily this is not so, and such dishes as Peking ravioli, shrimp on toast, and Shanghai duck are delicious evidence that the Mandarin is just as good, if not better. Until now northern Chinese fare has been as rare in discovery as it is superb in taste, and local epicures have had to travel many miles in search...