Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baked home town of Nylstroom in central Transvaal. Awaiting him in Nylstroom's town hall was a capacity crowd of leathery Boer farmers, their bosomy wives, and teen-age Nationalist Youth Bunders waving the flag of the old British-hating Transvaal Republic. From the platform a local politico shouted out an introduction in Afrikaans: "Our candidate is the lion of the North. Tonight you are going to hear him roar...
...LOCAL TV PUBLIC SERVICE: Panorama on Denver...
...LOCAL RADIO PUBLIC SERVICE: Highbrow KPFA-FM (TIME, Feb. 24) in Berkeley, Calif...
...Corp., the fight was boxing's biggest closed-circuit theater-TV presentation. Often fuzzy and unfocused, the large-screen picture even lit up some regular boxing arenas with the flicker of new-style programs to come. In Texas, and in upstate New York, where Basilio is a popular local hero, enterprising matchmakers put on live preliminaries before they dimmed the house lights, hooked up projectors, placed screens in the ring, and tuned in the main bout. Only in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Orlando, Fla., did equipment fail, and force promoters to return their take. When all the receipts were...
Capitalism can fall into some unexpected pitfalls in its travels around the world, but none more surprising than in Guinée, French West Africa. Recently, so goes the tale, a wealthy chieftain bought a brand-new car from a local auto dealer, proudly drove it away, filled with his numerous family. A few miles down the road, he skidded into a ditch and overturned. Though no one was badly hurt, the car was wrecked. Wrathfully. the chief returned to the dealer and demanded a new car because, he said, the wrecked one had been bewitched. As an expert witness...