Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some minds at least, as the little taxpayer's frustrated friend. But Republicans are making hay with the fact that the ill-smelling Teamsters plopped $3,500 into his 1956 campaign hopper-a fact which Docking first clumsily denied and then admitted. And in crucial Sedgwick County, the local Democrats are in bad repute (Wichita, pop. 260,000) over recent scandals, e.g., the pending disbarment action against a common-pleas judge charged with having advised members of a burglary ring. Docking, 54, once regarded as a sure thing in his bid for an unprecedented Democratic second term, is headed...
...statement in a local newspaper regarding John Foster Dulles's visit to Harvard last weekend has caused considerable stir within the University...
This fall, Eyre, Aaron, Salsbury and Dean Gitter '56 are currently organizing the Cambridge Repertory Theatre, which will start year-round professional productions early next spring. There is a great need for a good local repertory company, and the prospects for the new CRT seem favorable. I hope the group will be able to equal the artistic successes of the old Brattle company--but with better financial results...
...spirit of dancing. Indeed, there were probably no more than ten people dancing in the entire square, two of which Vag noticed rocking to a medium-pace Lanin fox-trot. After this set was completed, followed again by a deafening silence, a long line of state and local celebrities filed onto the bandstand to say a few ungrammatical sentences to the assembly. Most nobable among them was perhaps Mayor Phil Des-Rosiers who welcomed one and all, expressed hopes for a bright future, and was booed rather severely by the crowd, thus casting some doubt on the good mayor...
...more than Vag could believe: not a single reaction to Lanin's music, loud boos for local leaders, pure apathy for two of the country's most popular vocalists. Vag began to feel the pressure of the crowd around him, although the people were not actually pressing physically against him since his snotty remarks during the evening had long since created a you-need-a-man's-deodorant circle around him. Turning around, he saw the seductive portals of the Alamo Bar and Grill. Slowly, as if in a trance, Vag entered, while on the platform, courageous to the last...