Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss of a big, independent St. Louis distribution union. Gibbons in 1949 sold out to the Teamsters, dipping into his union treasury-without informing the membership-to help buy off officers of the Teamster local who were discarded in the merger...
...left unanswered. Fact is that in 13 years, the Miss America Pageant has turned from a leering pressagent's dream into a sort of solemn, deep-breathing Rorschach test, as stickily wholesome as Atlantic City's famed saltwater taffy. The girls are the chosen mascots of local civic and service clubs, are told to keep their eyes not on glamour but on more than $150,000 worth of scholarships contributed by business firms, and are constantly surrounded by ulcerescent chaperons, without whom they may not speak to any man, "including male members of their own families." Explained Hostess...
...second in or near Europe (the other is in Bern, Switzerland). The new temple was opened to the public for 17 days, but after its dedication this week, only Mormons may enter who have been "recommended for participation in the various ceremonies" and bear certificates from their local churches that they are "morally clean, have paid their tithes, sustain the word of wisdom and sustain the authority of the church...
...tall, lithe man with greying blond hair, Lawrence never looked his years. Born in Canton, S. Dak. of Norwegian stock, the son of a superintendent of schools, he was a radio tinkerer in high school, worked his way through local Midwestern colleges. His interest in radio led him to a Ph.D. in physics at Yale (1925), and he began studying ionization, the electrification of atoms by loss or gain of electrons. At 27 he was made an associate professor at the University of California, in 1930 conceived the idea of the cyclotron, which has been called "as useful in research...
...catafalque. The church fee will be a flat $15; undertakers will have to make what profit they can on extras outside the church-ornate coffins, luxurious hearses, etc. The dead whose families cannot afford to pay even for the simplified funeral will be buried at the expense of the local government, and with no fee for the church...