Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passionate adherent of the two-week-old Algerian insurrection. Barely 13 hours later, 36-year-old Pascal Arrighi, at the head of 250 Corsica-based paratroopers and a mob of 10,000, seized control of the island capital of Ajaccio. From the balcony of the Ajaccio Prefectural Headquarters a local contractor announced, amid shouts of "Vive De Gaulle," the formation of a Committee of Public Safety whose membership "was prepared long ago in Algiers...
...major weapon of massive resistance is a state law empowering Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. to close any school where integration takes place. If an integrated school is kept open by local authorities anyhow-as might happen in tolerant Arlington, partly a suburb of Washington, D.C.-the state must shut off state financial aid. Another weapon: under so-called "Little Rock bills," any school patrolled by federal troops is closed automatically, and the Governor can close all other schools in the district...
...current court case concerning the construction of the Armenian Holy Trinity Church on Brattle St. may establish the limits of local communities' authority in applying zoning regulations to religious and educational institutions...
...Local residents protesting the proposed church are reportedly more concerned with the architects' plan for a 57-foot height of the main building than with the 90-foot spire...
...throw contestants off the track by publishing a largely misleading list of possibilities. In fact, only one of our choices received the Call to the Black Robes in 1957. This year, however the CRIMSON takes the wraps off a genuine list of inside tips compiled with the aid of local racetrack prognosticator Clocker Spanielle...